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
JONGEN Frères
The patent for this weapon belongs to
Victor COLLETTE.
JONGEN
Frères
(Liege proofhouse 1856-1873) taken over in 1874 by
JAMAR-SMITS &
JONLET themselves taken over in 1906 by
LAJOT &
JONLET.
Between 1863 and 1864,
JONGEN brothers
filed four Belgian patents for a double-movement revolver and improvements to
this type of weapon.
Pistol patented by
Victor Collette
on the basis of a patent filed by one of his engineers,
Jean Nicolas
Herman.
On
Victor Collette,
we will also find other achievements of this Liege armorer in the first volume
of the series “Liege gunmakers through their work 1800-1950” by Alain Daubresse.
And on
this page :
https://www.littlegun.be/arm%20belgium/artisans%20identifies%20c/a%20colette%20precisions%20en.htm.
About
Collette, the
Neue Stöckel tells us: "in Liege, Manufacturer, patent in 1852 for a repeating
pistol".
The caliber of this weapon is approximately .30 for a
cartridge similar to that of the Volcanic. Unlike the Volcanic and later
Winchester, where the cartridge is pushed by a spring into the barrel, this gun
uses gravity to drop the cartridge into the barrel. The magazine is above the
barrel and the sliding movement takes the next cartridge. Like the Volcanic,
these pistols used cartridges with primer and powder inside the bullet, which
were produced by
Loron and Gaupillat.
Pretty engraved patterns.
The Liège Victor Collette exhibited at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1855 a judiciously designed automatic reload weapon. A tube for about forty projectiles is placed above the barrel. By arming the hammer to the first hump, he opens the housing and a lever allows the projectile to enter. By arming up to the second hump, the chamber closes. The projectiles are hollow and contain explosive material and powder. The inventor called this system "gravity."
