2-piper:
No chamber markings I can see. There's one pic of the barrel flats and the stamp of "1504" with "WR3"??? inverted beside it. Since Belgium's inspector's mark was to avoid weakeness and from 1853 to 1877 was a "crown" over a letter and was changed in 1877 to a "*" over a letter due to complaints from the London proofhouse, I would say without a doubt it was a black powder gun for 65mm chambers imported/assembled from parts prior to the German proof laws. Either PeteM or revdocdrew may know the time span for the "*E" but I haven't checked their respective sites. One problem with the Lefaucheux action that it was weak and subject longarm looks to have the lower forward underlever bent. Also, there's a large "H" in the well(for want of a better term) of the recevier just forward of the lockup bolt/spindle.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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Last edited by ellenbr; 11/23/08 09:19 AM.
