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MANGEOT & COMBLAIN
Extraordinary revolver type
MANGEOT-COMBLAIN signed on the barrel "MANJOS COMPLET
PARIS"
This 12-shot revolver (cal. 7 mm ) with percussion has a wooden cross with a
lion's head at the knob. We find the same model in Maurice COTTAZ’s 1970 book
lot :306.
The barrel rotates on a screwed axis that connects the frame to the barrel; the
head of the axis is a conical square. On the left of the frame a button allows
to put the hammer safely.
All the pieces are engraved, in acid, with floral motifs, the canon is
octagonal.
Total length: 32 cm. No apparent number. The manufacturing is of good quality,
the mechanism works well in dual action.
But why the Spanish-sounding signature?
And who made that weapon?
Mangeot & Comblain
This
weapon was part of the Rolf Muller Collection dispersed on December 6, 1994 in
San Francisco.
Rollf
MULLER, diamond dealer and collector wrote the monumental 2-volume work LES
REVOLVERS MILITAIRES EUROPEENS (in German)
Dimensions of the weapon:
Total
length 305 mm / Canon length 169mm / cal 11, 2 mm pinfire.
Octagonal barrel along its entire length
Markings:
ELG in
Oval / punch M under crown on barrel and barrel.
Marked
on 2 lines:
Mangeot
(illegible)
Patented
&
COMBLAIN
N° 968
(This number is hidden by the wand when it is in the door position)
System:
-The
loading door, which is equipped with a small lock, acts, by successive
manoeuvres, as an ejection rod.
-The
upper part of the hammer is provided with a notch that serves as a target when
he is armed.
Pierre A.
Mangeot & Comblain
Revolver Mangeot – Comblain second type.
- Engraved with floral motifs, polished white.
- A percussion (caps and balls).
- Refill with swivel bucket placed on the right side of the barrel.
- External hammer on the right side.
- Safety device (small barrel placed to the left of the carcass) to block the
hammer in the high position, preventing percussion.
- Bridge device to block the hammer in armed position for shooting in simple
action.
- Simple cap of the second type.
- Finely gridded monobloc stock.
Characteristics:
- Six shots.
- Caliber 12 mm.
- Total length: 290 mm.
- Barrel length: 145 mm.
- Weight: 1000 gr.
Markings
- To the left of the barrel at thunder level:
Mangeot breveté Comblain and serial
number 1621 + U crowned.
- On carcass under deck on the left: Serial No 1621.
GRIBEAUVAL
