Some of the most beautiful work of this craftsman, and many others, are in this book “Liège Gunmakers through their Work. 1800 - 1950”.
For more detail see: LIEGE GUNMAKERS
DOZIN Mathieu
Here's what, at first glance, might look like a very classic Lincoln hammerless revolver with folding trigger, as thousands of them have been produced in Liège.
The presence of a security (SUR/FEU) changes the
situation, especially when the inserts are unscrewed and the mention
M. DOZIN
Patented appears.
Body
treated with acid, cylinder and barrel black (?), black plates of grips.
Markings
ELG on
star in crowned oval: accepted by the Liège Test Bench, in use since 11 July
1893;
G with a
very small asterisk: at first I thought of a controller countermark, but the
asterisk is smaller than on the next punch...
AP under
star: countermark of a controller, in use since 1877;
R
crowned: striped cannon, in use since 30 January 1894;
Mathieu DOZIN, a gunmaker established on rue de Visé in Wandre 100, filed eight patents between 1897 and 1906, including 129029 of June 16, 1897,
which
concerns a security for revolvers, with or without hammer, as appears from the
attached drawing.
It is
already mentioned on the site, both among the identified gunsmiths and in the
exceptional collection, but not yet with this safety revolver.
As for the usefulness of a security on a hammerless revolver... you’ll have to get up early to try to convince me, given the force to exert on the trigger... but who am I...
Anyway,
it was an opportunity to add a – very modest – stone to the building, I mean to
say to the ingenuity of the Liege armourers.
GP
DOZIN Mathieu
DOZIN, Mathieu was a "Arms manufacturer", Rue de Visé, n°100 to Wandre, Belgium, which deposited the British patent 23739/1902 with the aid of the patent agents of London, Messrs. Boult, Wade and Kilburn. Wandre is a small Belgian city, with approximately ten kilometers of Liege, a city with an economy on which (at least partly) manufacture depended on weapons since the sixteenth century.
One is unaware of if Mr. Dozin continued to manufacture in Wandre, or if the address were its private residence.
The specifications of patent 23739/1902 aimed five innovations for two basically similar systems of ejection of cartouche employed in the revolvers. With the difference of the mechanism of CASHMORE, ELLIS and of WILKINSON, the diagrams of the specifications of Dozin showed its invention applied to the small articulation of the revolvers of nonapparent trigger pocket (with folding trigger). A useful improvement in the design of Dozin was that the too strong ejection could be decreased at will. The user could thus gently expel the cartridges in his hand, by ejecting the empty casings completely their rooms.
Taylerson
DOZIN deposited 8 patents in Belgium of 1897 to 1906 concerning various improvements with the revolvers.
GG