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Rotsaert Léonard
It is
about a gun of shooting or stand mono-barrel. It breaks into two for the
loading/unloading while pushing on a button placed on the console. The rifled
bore of gauge 22L is round with a front sight with ramparts. The back sight
seems to be micrometric. The trigger under trigger guard is with puts back
fingers. The grips consist of two plates out of wooden (Walnut ?) squared
connected by a transverse screw and two rivet washers. This grips is also
equipped with a spur intended to block the hand.
This
weapon is a weapon of precision intended for the shooting with target 50 M.
It
carries the lawful punches of the proofhouse of Liège, namely:
ELG* in a
crowned oval: final acceptance item 1893.
O*:
countermark of the controller post 1877.
Peron:
inspection post 1853.
R
crowned: rifled bore, of use of 1894 to 21968.
The
weapon also carries some marks, namely
22L:
gauge.
LR in an
oval lying:
it could acts of the trademark of
Rotsaert Léonard,
manufacturer of weapons of Liège, registered with the registers of the
proofhouse of 1920 to 1952.
Appendix:
extracted the catalogue
Sauveur
presenting the same type of weapons.
After the identification closure, we receive new
photographs of the weapon and in particular the amount of stick carrying
inscription Meyers-Coune,
it acts of the manufacturer of weapons of Liège
Meyers-Coune
Henri of Cheratte (Liege) Author in 1913 of
two Belgian patents for an automatic pistol system per deflagration of gases,
combining the retreat in three places and with movement of opposite trigger as
well as a new device applicable to the automatic weapons. These two patents
don’t have anything to see with the present weapon.
In any assumption, we think that
Meyers-Coune
would be the real manufacturer and
Rotsaert
the retailer.
GG
Rotsaert Léonard
It is about a gun known as “Brazilian”.
It presents two barrels “in table” of gauge 410. It is designed to use
cartridges of hunting of this gauge. This weapon is with crack for the
loading/unloading. It breaks by using the snap placed under the barrels. The
stick in walnut squared is of standard “banana”.
The weapon carries the lawful punches of the proofhouse of Liege, namely:
ELG* in a crowned oval: final acceptance, of use of 1893 to 1968.
Perron: inspection, of use of 1853 to our days.
AH* and AB* U*: countermarks of the controllers, of use of 1877 to our days.
410-50 in an omega: gauge nominal and length of the casing, of use of 1924 to
our days.
EL in English letters: provisional test, of use of 1852 to our days.
10.7: gauge in mm, of use of 1889 to our days.
The weapon also carries the following marks:
LR in an oval lying:
I think that it is the trademark of arms manufacturer
Rotsaert Léonard, Liege street Dony,
39.
2814 - 11140 -106: they are marks left by the various arms manufacturers implied
in this manufacturing.
Is one of them probably a serial number?
GG
