Lebeau - Courally FALSE
Here is a beautiful superimposed rifle of Liège
manufacture, platinum, beautiful English lacrosse, with a beautiful work of
engraving. The only "hitch" is that we wanted to attribute this rifle to the
famous house Auguste LEBEAU-COURALLY.
Which confirmed that the gun didn't come out of her house.
Of course, we will never know the manufacturer, since a forger does not -
logically - sign his "works"...
Markings
1kg385 : barrel weight
Annual letter "m" underlined: this rifle was transferred to the Liège proofhouse
in 1974;
s under asterisk: countermark of a controller, in use since 1877;
12-70 in omega-coated: the caliber and length of the chamber, in use since 1924;
PV surrounding the porch in a crowned oval: superior proof for smooth-barrel
rifles, in use since 1968;
MAGI: this is the
MAGILISSEN
barrel garnisher; it is mentioned in the website.
The company "Le Fusil Liégeois" is an import-export company specialized in
weapons and ammunition and their accessories, rue de Mulhouse 31 to 4020 Liège,
directed by a certain C. Nadeau (another reference speaks of 33 rue de
Mulhouse).
A member of the team also expressed doubts about this marking: he thought it was
"ugly", not regular, not aligned. You should be able to compare it to another
weapon. I found a few of them on the web, but without pictures of the markings.
GP with the help of HPH and PHL
