Originally Posted By: Argo44
All have my head spinning....talk about cross-cultural diversification!

The third one has this escruntcheon plate:
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/878877957


"Le Bazar de la Charité, 1888"
It obviously originally was black powder proofed.

One would think it to be a Paris gun but darned if it doesn't look Brit!! And I cannot begin to decipher the proof marks. I'm going to assume it's a German given in 1888 to a charity sale in Paris. - where it went from there is a mystery:



Re "Le Bazar de la Charité," I'll translate the below if there is interest.

Le Bazar de la Charité est, à l'origine, un consortium de plusieurs œuvres de bienfaisance, qui louent un local ou un espace d'exposition en commun, afin de réduire leurs dépenses et de permettre de grouper acheteurs et invités. Installé, de 1885 à 1887, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, en 1889 place Vendôme et, en 1888 et de 1890 à 1896, rue La Boétie5, il est transféré en 1897 aux nos 15 et 17 de la rue Jean-Goujon dans le 8e arrondissement, sur un terrain mis gracieusement à disposition par le banquier Michel Heine6.

(Reilly had a shop for a few months on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in 1885.)


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