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
GALAND René
It is about a pistol of shooting of precision of the type FLOBERT to annular percussion 22LR.
The trigger guard is with rest-finger and the trigger is striped on its lower half to avoid the slip of the finger.
The stick banana is in walnut smooth.
The barrel is with 8 sides with back sight and bead.
The extractor of casing is placed between the hammer and the breech.
The peak of hammer is squared.
The rifled bore carries the engraving of manufacturer GALAND Rene to LIEGE as well as an engraving in Spanish language “A ESPINGARDA MINEIRA” meaning that it is about a gun MINEIRA of name of the local retailer most probably.
The weapon carries the lawful punches of the proofhouse of LIEGE, namely:
ELG on star in a crowned oval: final acceptance post 1893.
Y spangled: countermark of the controller post 1877.
Peron: inspection, of use of 1853 to our days.
R crowned: rifled bore, of use of 1894 to 1968.
The weapon also carries the mark FL22L which means that it is of gauge 22L Flobert.
In appendix: a page of catalogue GALAND presenting an almost identical weapon.
GG
Message
from a thoughtful reader:
I have
additional historical information that may be of interest to you.
I noticed
that the weapon has the inscription "A Espingarda Mineira", but it is an
inscription in Portuguese, not Spanish.
"A
Espingarda Mineira" refers to an old gun store located in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, founded in 1872.
This
store imported weapons from France, Belgium, Germany, England and the United
States, and resold them to local citizens.
It
supplied weapons to the Brazilian crown, the Brazilian and Uruguayan armies, as
well as the police forces of several Brazilian cities.
The term
"Mineira" refers to the origin of the owners of the store, who were from the
province of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
I hope
you find this information useful and relevant.
F.M.
