Some of the most beautiful work of this craftsman, and many others, are in this book “Liège Gunmakers through their Work. 1800 - 1950”.
For more detail see: LIEGE GUNMAKERS
Léopold ANCION-MARX
Here is a rifle Comblain model 1882 of the Civic Guard recanned late (after 1924 in any case, even in 1946) for hunting by the house Ancion-Marx in Liege.
A very
common practice.
Markings
Perron:
inspection since 1853
0 kg723:
weight of the barrel since 1924
Y: could
be the annal letter of 1946
Lion on
PV: test with the powder without smoke between 1898 and 1968
ELG in
oval on crowned star: acceptance between 1893 and 1968
12-70 in
omega lying: nominal gauge and length of the chamber since 1924
LLH:
Laurent Lochet-Habran manufacturer of weapons and barrels
184
CHOKE 183: choked barrel
LAM in
triangle: initials deposited in 1897 of the house Léopold Ancion-Marx in Liege
EL:
provisional test since 1852
l, x, k
under star: countermarks of controllers of 1877 to 1968.
Perhaps
there are one or two letters with a number on it, from the body of the civic
guard to which the weapon belonged.
The
Léopold Ancion-Marx arms factory was active from 1890 until the second half of
the 20th century and registered no less than eleven patents and seven trademarks
from 1897 to 1933.
In the
blessed era before the consumer society, when nothing was thrown away and the
blast furnaces were not fuelled with weapons "that could still be used",
decommissioned military weapons were extensively converted into cheap
hunting/guarding weapons.
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