Aaron, how do you find these? You are writing history on this site.
Same as we all do; I have a lot of saved searches on some French auction sites. Also have a few friends in France that have similar interests and point out things to me they see. I just happened to be looking specifically for this stuff.
And for the value I think some of these should have I just think that those in France don’t bid high enough on them and there’s just not enough research on them yet for people to be excited about them. I hope to change that.
It is kind of neat though that nearly every gun I find (especially with the pistols I focus on) that the majority of them I never even knew existed before I get it in. There’s just not the research or compiled original documentation on these like there is on British and American guns. A good example of this is in a recent article of mine:
https://aaronnewcomer.com/the-lefau...secrets-of-early-pistols-and-cartridges/