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Comblain D.J.
This is a nice pepperbox made of a beautiful Damascus steel with 4 screwed-in barrels and with the ignition area protected by an anti-spitting shield.
This firing is done by a lower firing pin actuated by a ring, like in the MARIETTE pepperbox .
This gun bears the Liege acceptance stamp used from1846 to 1893.
It is also stamped D.J. COMBLAIN BREVETE on the lower part of the grip strap.
Dieudonné Joseph COMBLAIN was a gunsmith in TREMBLEUR, near Liege.
From 1850 to 1855, he registered eight Belgian patents one of which concerning improvements for this gun i.e to the revolving system of the gun.
He also worked on a two shot gun, on improvements to a gun with several hammers and only one trigger and on a needle pistol , with several shots and only one barrel.
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