Funny you should address your question "JABC, I hope not"...because in fact 99% of all JABC's were produced in or around the Henri Pieper factory, the second largest producer of Belgian firearms. First being FN, and third being Manufacture Liegeoise (ML). ML produced the reciever forgings for 95% of every high grade SxS to have ever been produced in Belgium. Receiver forgings and parts where provided to near every finishing house, Francotte and Lebeau included. ML also produced receivers and part forgings for finishing houses and artisans in Spain, France, and Italy. Rumor has it, that shortly after WWII, Bernadelli bought ML's trip hammers and dies.... ML, like Etab. Pieper, was at the heart of the cottage arms trade that flourished in and around Liege. Unlike Peiper, ML was a public company, like FN (Fabrique National). ML was such a large producer, that they were able to similtaneously produce different lines of SxS's, in order to respond to different fashions in different countries. For example, guns made for export to Italy were often available with a forth fasteners and in higher grades than offered in other countries in that same year. In trying to put ML into perspective, I would guess their SxS production totals would probably exeed that of L C Smith, Parker, and Lefever put together. Not including all the rough forgings they provided to artisans all across Europe. The fact that it's marked ML, gives it sufficient pedigree to prove that it's not even a healthy cousin of all those JABC's, that all got their start in life at Pieper.
I can't see the images so late in this posting, but if you would like more info on your shotgun, you can repost the images, and I will try to post corresponding catalog images and related data.
