Les plus belles réalisations de cet artisan, et bien d’autres encore, se trouvent dans le livre "Les armuriers Liégeois à travers leurs réalisation. 1800 - 1950".
Pour tous les détails voir : LES ARMURIERS LIEGEOIS
Debeche or Delderenne
Here is a
nice flintlock pistol with a bayonet called launching that unfolds by pulling on
the trigger guard.
Claude
Gaier was kind enough to light our lantern: This so-called "Scottish" pistol
dates, according to the proof of Liège, from the time when it was not yet
defined according to the decree of Napoleon - so around 1810-1811 - but was
already approaching it, in a more or less official way.
As for the initials
AD,
they could, without certainty, refer either to an
Albert DEBECHE,
who at that time was living at No.857 in Haute-Sauvenière, or to an
André
DELDERENNE, mentioned at the Faubourg
Saint-Léonard in 1791.These craftsmen were not registered arms dealers, but they
could very well have signed a weapon at a time when there was still great
confusion in the legislation.
I am very
surprised by the presence of a kind of registration number N 612.84 31 on the
grips which is otherwise nicely checked (the engraving on the chest of the
pistol is also very successful). I don’t know why I think of a customs officer’s
pistol.
I hope
that the mystery will come to light one day !
GP with the help of Claude Gaier and HPH.
