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What's the timeframe on your Roberts? What do the shells look like?

Wasn't there a french maker named "Pauly" who had a similar design?

Dear Editor,
According to the Gazette des Tribunaux of yesterday, Mr. Robert staging, in a trial which is personal to him, the gun who bears my name, would have claimed that in the event of a break of one of the two screws beyond the rocker, this weapon offered dangers of which he made a frightening picture. Allow me to invoke against this assertion, at least inaccurate, the testimony recorded in all the newspapers in the months of April and May last, of the experiments made at Renette shooting, then at Rouen and Le Havre, and in which the hinge screw and that of action were successively and deliberately removed or broken, without the firing of the weapon having even been disturbed. Moreover, Sir, to put the public in a position to to judge in full knowledge of the rifle-Robert and the rifle Lefaucheux, I have just proposed to Mr. Robert, in my name and in that of Mr. Baucheron-Permet, Prelat, Lefaure, Delebourse and Deboubert, all well-known arquebusiers in Paris, a public and comparative test of the two systems, results which we accept as judges the very members of the Academy of Industry who conferred on M. Robert a gold medal.