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
Nikitis Erben
It is the Liège copy of a COLT Navy 1851. It is
unfortunately badly damaged and some of the brands are very hard to read.
The weapon bears the following markings:
Address Col. Samuel COLT NEW-YORK USA: this is probably a
brand invented in Liège to make it more true.
32 Caliber: so well read? Caliber of the gun.
Unreadable ARMS C°: unreadable mark.
20 918: gun number.
F* and C*: countersigns of the Liège test bench
inspectors. I think I also saw a Q* to be classified in the event markings.
J N E between crossed arrows:
trademark ?
In any event, it could belong to the Austro-Turkish colts dealer from Liège type
Brooklyn-Bridge Nikitis Erben (1860/1880).
NN + what appears to be a flower: ???
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