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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

NEUMANN Frères

Here is what must surely be a "heavy" hunting rifle with two guns and external hammers, a pistol-griped butt, from the Liège-based company NEUMANN Frères, which has produced everything, from beautiful to... slightly less beautiful.

hat we can read on the web, the NEUMANN Bros are – probably too much – often referred to as JABC, Just Another Belgian Clunker.

However, I readily admit that this rifle does not "deserve" such a designation.

I write “heavy”, as it were, of course, but only the 8 caliber (21.9 mm) suggests that it is indeed more of a duck rifle than a shotgun.

Markings

ELG on star in crowned oval: accepted, in use from 1893 to 1968;

8 on C in vertical diamond: calibre, in use from 1898 to 1924;

Perron: inspection by the Test Bench of Liège;

EL: provisional acceptance, in use since 1853;

J under asterisk: countermark of a controller, in use since 1877.

NEUMANN Frères

Neumann

Neumannn Frères

Rue St Remy 5-7 à Liège

Belgian bench test 1860 - 1962.

Firm CLEMENT in 1954 begins again.

By Herr

Neumann Frères & C°, Liège erw 1860/63 "Fabricant".

Neumann Frères, Liège erw 1863/1924, "Fabricant", succede to "Neumann frères & C°".

Neumann Max, Liège ca 1900, see also "Clément & Neumann".

Neumann Frères

Revolver of the type KOBOLD calibre 44 Russian with central percussion of them. Large gauge for a so small weapon, it must strongly buck with the shooting!

The barrel is round with front sight in half-moon and 9 stripes!

The cylinder not grooved carries 5 chambers.

The stick in nozzle of Corbin is equipped with two plates, out of wood of drowning, finely striped.

The plates are joined together by a through screw and two brass rivet washers.

The loading is practiced by a right side door, actuated by an internal spring.

The casings are removed by the rod fixed on the axis of barrel. It must be inserted very into turn in each chamber to remove the casing which is there.

It does weapon seem to preserve 100% of its nickel plating, it is rather rare is it is not a question of a Re-nickel plating?

It carries the punches of tests of the proofhouse of Liege, namely:

Spangled ELG in an oval: final acceptance of 1846 to 1893.

L spangled: countermark of the controller post 1877.

The other marks are:

A hunting horn with a N inside: it is about a trade mark by NEUMANN Frères street Saint Remy, 15 in LIEGE, just like mark KOBOLD deposited by same the 29.12.1893. That shows that before even to have deposited these marks, the weapon already manufactured and had passed to the bench of tests. The weapon thus has in all probability be manufactured in 1893.

On the barrel, the mark MARQUIS COIRIER successors. T and F Bd. from the Italians, 4 in PARIS, belong without question to the retailer Parisian arms manufacturer who resold this weapon. MARQUIS founded a collective factory and a workshop in 1848. He took part in the exposure of Paris in 1855 and 1867 and in that of London in 1862. Nothing found on COIRIER!

Neumann Frères

This weapon does not have anything a postal revolver; it acts of a revolver with central percussion with 9 shots of the type “mitrailleuse”.

The barrel with sides with the thunder becomes round and hemmed with the mouth the made-to-order of the REISCHREVOLVER just as the safety of the type MAUSER.

This barrel is equipped with a front sight in half-moon.

The loading is practiced by the side door dropping thanks to the action of an internal spring. Unloading is practiced using a rod swivelling on an axis.

The stick in nozzle of corbin consists of two plates of gutta-percha (moulded rubber).

The weapon carries the lawful punches of the test of Liège, namely:

Spangled ELG in a crowned oval: acceptance post 1893.

O spangled: countermark of the controller post 1877.

R crowned: rifled bore post 1894.

L crowned on the barrel: it is not a question of a mark of the proofhouse but rather, in any assumption, of a mark of manufacturer of barrel (foundry)

Manufacturer

The postal horn with a N inside posed on the plates of gutta-percha is a trade mark by NEUMANN Frères, street St Remy, 15 in LIEGE. This mark was deposited the 30.12.1893 what agrees well with the punches of tests.

This firm left other marks like: Kobold - Head of tiger - Headlight - letter NR and tin soldier - Impérator - The new century riffle.

Photos Littlegun