
It would be of interest to know whether Your gun has an adjustable rear sight or only a French type blocksight on the breech. The Confederates limited their foreign purchase on British Enfields (and perhaps a few older British models like the Brunswick and Pattern 1842) and Austrian Lorenz rifle muskets. As far as I know there was always a Southern relation to the Liège made guns from Tanner, perhaps these were the "Melitta"-guns. 1861 on board of the British steamer "Melitta" (see Whisker, Yantz, "Firearms from Europe", 2nd edit., p. There is only one existing hint that a small number of these guns reached Savannah on 16th Sept. The North bought thousands of this type (3 band, but also 2 band, the latter as the so called Chasseur de Vincennes type), often referred or intermixed as French muskets but mostly of Belgian (Liège) manufactory (from Francotte, Ancion, Monseur, Malherbe etc.) but the Confederates only a few. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.Your musket is a Liège (Belgium) made gun, a copy of a French regular model (1842, 1853 or 1857) with the typical back action lock. Francotte go their start making arms in Liege Belgium in the early 1800’s, building arms for other countries militaries, but later on in their history shifted to concentrating on building the finest quality civilian sporting arms.
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Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. CONDITION: Excellent, essentially as new, with little evidence of having been fired since proof, and only a few light scattered marks in wood and metal. Today all Francotte shotguns are bespoke. Francotte guns became well known in the UK and were imported into the USA by Abercrombie & Fitch. Later they turned to sporting arms, and soon garnered attention as a builder of best guns in the British tradition. PROVENANCE: Factory letter with 1995 replacement estimate for this gun. Auguste Francotte & Cie was founded in 1805 in Liege to produce military arms. Case contains bags for action and bbls, and a Francotte label in covered compartment. Variegated brown leather case is lined in olive green felt, and has gold embossed Armsport Inc label in lid. Rare large caliber 12mm dubbel action pin fire revolver,with ribbed barrel with fixed front sight and notch rear sight on the bridge, markings on the barrel. Shotgun bbls: Bore diameter: left -.549, right –. Belgium - 19th Century - Mid to Late - August Francotte - American civil war - August Francotte liege double action pinfire revolver - Pinfire (Lefaucheux) - Revolver - 12mm cal. Get the latest business insights from Dun & Bradstreet. Rifle BBLS: Drop at heel: approx 2-5/8″, drop at comb: approx 1-3/4″. Find company research, competitor information, contact details & financial data for Francotte of Hannut, LIEGE. Each bbl set has its own dedicated small beavertail ejector forend with Anson release. Sold by Von Len Gerice & Detmold and made in Liege Belgium It has a beautiful spiral dimascuss pattern.

Beautifully marbled and nicely figured European walnut straight grip buttstock measures 14″ over checkered wood butt, and features standard drop points and point pattern checkering. Scroll engraved trigger guard has SN gold inlaid on tang.
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Action and lockplates are engraved with near full coverage large shaded scroll surrounding vignettes of gold inlaid game in appropriate backgrounds three gold pigeons fly into open meadow on left plate, with a trio of quail flushing over fence on right. Coin finished, sideplated boxlock action features non-automatic safety, hidden third fastener, bushed strikers, and dbl triggers.

26″ Shotgun bbls with concave, matted rib, are engraved the same as rifle bbls, with same type appropriate markings on bottoms. Bbl flats are stamped with Belgian nitro proofs for 9.3X74R, which is also engraved on bottom of right bbl, with “Made in Belgium” on left. Francotte – Liege” is engraved on top of right bbl. When it is known that the company was creates into 1810/1811, it is noted that weapon presents it is one of the first achievements of the young company, it all the more has value of it. 24-7/8″ Chopper lump rifle bbls are fitted with matted quarter rib holding one standing, two folding leaf express rear sight, and matching front ramp holding gold bead. Crowned mark AF is the mark of Auguste FRANCOTTE street Mont St Martin, 61 in Liege. View Robin’s full profile See who you know in common Get introduced. Report this profile Education HELMo HELMo Bachelors degree Technico-commercial.

FRANCOTTE SIDEPLATED BOXLOCK EJECTOR DOUBLE RIFLE WITH EXTRA 28 GAUGE BARRELS AND CASE. Robin Francotte Student at HELMo Liège, Walloon Region, Belgium 4 connections.
