Originally Posted by AaronN
Hey Steve, did you see my message to you on his Facebook post for this Bissell the other day?

I mentioned that for me, the style definitely feels later than earlier too. And the crosspin fastener forearm release mechanism does not feel French at all ( or at least it was much more common on British-made guns) nor Belgian which pretty much just made the French designs.

Hi Aaron, sorry I did not see your comment on the FB post. As to the crosspin fastener, the Belgian makers did use these for their wooden fore-ends, as with this one by Jean-Baptiste Rongé et Fils of Liège:

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