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Dacier Lambert
Here is a pinfire revolver of undisclosed caliber (9 mm ?), marked Hill London
on the barrel.
The
Stockel mentions a John Hill active in London (Tooley Street 76, gun and pistol
maker according to a 1843 postal directory) between 1822 and 1856, which could
correspond.
This
John Hill was in fact a manufacturer in Birmingham and also active in cutlery,
especially bayonets:
https://collegehillarsenal. com/british-rifle-socket-bayonet-by-hill-c1820
As for
the manufacturer.......
There
are many initials: DAF crowned, LG, TD under the stock plates, probably foundry
marks.
I agree with other members of the team who favour a Birmingham punch on the
barrel between each chamber and on the right side of the carcass near the hammer
screw.
GP with HPH and PHL
There remains the solution stated to the previous weapon!
Without certainty !
Dacier Lambert
It is about a revolver with six blows of ignored gauge! The rifled bore is round with a triangular handlebar.
The weapon is with vertical percussion (with pin)! The smooth barrel is with six blows.
The rod is right and is fixed under the barrel.
The stick is out of black matter difficult to determine (ebony, false ebony, others?) It ends in a screw-pivot and a ring.
The door of loading placed on the right side in front of the barrel is equipped
with a system of opening to grip.
The weapon carries the lawful punches of the bench of tests of Liege, that is to
say:
ELG* in a vertical oval: final acceptance, of use of 1846 to 1893.
NR crowned: countermark of the controller, of use of 1852 to 1893.
The weapon also carries several markings, that is to say:
LEFAUCHEUX:
the weapon being without question of manufacturing inhabitant of Liège, it was
not manufactured in the workshop Lefaucheux street of Fragnée to Liege because
the crowned EL does not appear on the
weapon. It is about a copy.
DAF crowned:
I did not find trace of this mark in my documentation. Do I launch an appeal for
our readers??
86: is it perhaps the classification of the weapon?
GG
It is a weapon which I already saw passing in the received requests it there a
few years.
My answer did not change since ..... I do not know to what or which corresponds
this word “DAF” has leaves the
relation with the car and truck.
It is Belgian, markings proves it .....
Significance of the word “Lefaucheux” without anything else ..... also the
mystery.
Can be an assumption (moreover based on nothing, no proof):
In 1869, after the lawsuit brought by arms manufacturers Belgian as well as the
end of the patent of the 1854 the same year, the payment of the royalties was
not necessary any more…. except that the name “Lefaucheux” was could salesman
...... then to mention it possibly promote the sale?????
Would DAF ..... no idea, also
assumption ..... Dacier Lambert .....
transferee of the Lefaucheux
installations in Liege in 1873, it have liked to continue…?
Dacier
Firearms…. = DAF (pure assumption
naturally)
Moreover what knows one about this DACIER?
Guillaume
