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
Rongé Jean-Baptiste
It is about a pistol of stand single shot in calibre
6mm probably of type Remington. The rifled bore (?) is with sides with front
sight and
bead in “v”. Lever of manual extraction is placed in front of the room. The
trigger under trigger guard with volutes seems accompanied by a strecher making
it possible to reduce the weight of trigger.
The stick
out of wooden of oak (?) is at coasts of the type worsens.
The
weapon carries the punches of the proofhouse of Liège, namely:
ELG* in
an oval vertical: final acceptance, of use of 1846 to 1893.
R *:
countermark of the controller of use of 1877 to 1968.
The
weapon also carries the following marks:
7953
(read so well): it is acted as any probability of a serial number.
J - H (on
the barrel): probably marks of workshop.
Crowned
JBR:
it is the mark of the manufacturer
Jean-baptiste
Rongé, registered with the proofhouse of
Liège of 1832 to 1929 and domiciled place Xavier Neujean, 4. The house would
have been founded in 1789. From 189 to 1928,
Rongé
manufacture will deposit 4 patents and twelve trademarks (see Who’s Who arms
manufacture of Liège).
Appendices: two pages extracted from a
Rongé
catalogue and presenting the production diversified of the pistol of stand!
GG
