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
Maes & Waltery
It is a central
percussion shotgun with a single barrel. This one is 8-sided.
His calibre is unknown. This barrel is equipped with a cursor line of
sight divided into several distances.
The percussion system is a “falling block” type.
The weapon as a whole exhibits attic rust and numerous stings.
The cheek and hook stock is broken.
The
weapon bears the statutory hallmarks of the Liège proofhouse, namely:
ELG* in a vertical oval: accepted in use from 1846 to 1893.
H*: Controller’s countermark, in use from 1877 to 1968.
The weapon bears the trademark of its manufacturers, Maes & Walthery, active at Liège between 1878 and 1879. They are the authors of two patents:
046 394 of 17.10.1878 for a cartridge gun.
048 370 of 31.05.1879 for a spring lift.
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