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L. Lhoist ?
This is a reduced “puppy” or “Bull-dog” type central percussion revolver! The
barrel falling to the right is a five-shot undisclosed caliber? The short barrel
is rifled and wears a crescent front sight. The foldable trigger without
triggerguard and the hammer seem to be in bronze. The weapon has a nice floral
engraving. The grips pads “seem” to be ivory.
The weapon bears the punches of the Liège proofhouse, namely:
ELG* in a crowned oval: definitive acceptance, in use from 1893 to 1968.
R crowned: striped gun, in use from 1894 to 1968.
AL*: Controller’s countermark, in use from 1877 to 1968.
L*: Could it be a brand of barrel maker?
The gun is also engraved with the words “Souvenir à mon ami Jules – L. Lhoist
1899” There is no indication that this engraving was the work of any Liège
armourer. If there are several Liège armourers named
Lhoist, none have a first name
beginning with the letter L.
There are no other markings to identify the manufacturer of the weapon.
GG
Lhoist
Pistol
from “T. LHOIST” called “living gun”.
Caliber 6mm Flobert.
Lhoist
A certain LHOIST T living Cheratte deposited a patent and two patents of improvement relating to a "system of revolving gun" (not to say a revolver) in 1851 and 1853.
Another LHOIST J, domiciled successively:
Rue du Pont d’Ile, 18 to Liège (1901).
Rue Mosselman to Liège (1909).
Rue Wazon, 128 to Liège (1911).
And finally Rue de Maestricht, 120 to Tongres.
With deposited 4 patents during these years, relating to revolvers, an automatic target and a gun with repetition.
Belgian bench test with DOUTREWE : 1873 - 1894.
After : TJ LHOIST-DOUTREWE & Co from 1894 to 1896.
In 1898, it is teken again by Dossin Hubert.
Lhoist
A weapon whose barrel can be removed by moving a small key.
Once the removed barrel, one can leave the cylinder to charge it.
Photos Littlegun
Lhoist T.
This weapon with four rotating barrels is marked “Lhoist Breveté”, and yet it resembles to mistake there with the Mariette pepper box.
Which is the difference?
Alain
Photos Littlegun
