Securitas "SGDG"
Here is a
slaughter gun (so to stun cattle) marked Securitas and SGDG (Sans Garantie du
Gouvernement), formula used in France (until 1968) and Belgium (still in force).
Regarding
“Securitas”, a member of the team found the following :
"The term 'Securitas' is used on many small arms, see for example:
I also
wrote an article about a Bull-Dog so named, and signed by the "Dépôt de Paris",
then directed by M. Amédée Maquaire (that of Fagnus-Maquaire) :
Is it
possible that this slaughter gun was distributed from that warehouse? Would the
term "Securitas" then have been a leitmotif of the firm?
He also
found another revolver with the term "Securitas" :
What's
more, he also noted in issue 425 of the Gazette des Armes that Maquaire had also
distributed "Securitas" bicycles!
Admittedly, this takes us a bit further from the slaughter gun, but we can still
find the rather “talking” coincidence: the origin is almost certainly French.
GP with the help of Chris
