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Gustave Prevost
Length:
97 cm
Flobert 9
mm calibre, smooth barrel, housing allowing the use of the long metal cartridge
loaded with lead.
Marking:
Prevost Breveté
(Patented) 981 on the carcass; we find this
marking on the left side of the barrel, but only the number is still visible
(the rest is almost completely erased).
No
Belgian proof mark.
Operation:
By
lowering the lever located at the front of the rifle, the gun advances and then
tilts for loading.
The
barrel must then be manually pushed back to put it back in place, after taking
care to arm the hammer.
An
articulated masselotte, carrying the sight, will rest on the cartridge, and will
strike the barrel of the cartridge when the hammer is released; it will also
allow the extraction of the casing pulled during a new opening.
Gilles
Gustave Prevost
It is
about a pistol of shooting or stand mono barrel. This last is striped, formed of
8 sides and equipped with a front sight and a bead out of V. The trigger guard
is with puts back finger and carries a light engraving. The trigger is slightly
curved. The hammer is with head punt and the oscillating striker is between the
hammer and the entry of the barrel. The stick is of type “rebirth” with cap with
baluster.
The
weapon doesn’t carry any punch of any proofhouse, of Liège or other ?
It
carries the following marks:
6044: it should be a question of its classification.
1866: I think that it is about the date of manufacture?
Provost &
VOT (?) Bté
: it acts without question of the mark of the
manufacturer of Liège
Prevost Gustave,
arquebusier-manufacturer of weapons, street of the Gold Pot, 27 in Liege. It was
registered with the registers of the proofhouse of Liège of 1876 to 1899. He was
the purchaser of patents
Abadie Ismaël
(18.05.1881) for then yielding them to the arms manufacturer
Soleil Léonard
From 1869 to 1899, it will deposit anything less than 10 patents including one
with
Marechal Michel. It dies in 1899 and its
widow will continue the activity until 1903. I don’t have any idea of what means
2nd name (V.OT?) I am unaware of if it misses a letter?
Bté
is
the abbreviation of "Breveté" (Patent in English)
GG
Gustave Prevost
This is a
6-shot revolver (caliber not disclosed). The barrel has 8 sections and the
sights are raised. Loading is done via the door located at the rear right of the
cylinder. The metal discharge rod is installed on the right side of the barrel.
The handle consists of two blackened wood plates (walnut?) They are joined by a
transverse screw and two ear rosettes.
This
weapon bears the regulatory hallmarks of the Liège proofhouse, namely:
ELG* in a
vertical oval: definitive acceptance, in use from 1846 to 1893.
T*:
controller's countermark, in use from 1877 to 1968.
The
weapon also bears the following markings:
140 :
Could it be the serial number?
Prevost: it is most likely the manufacturer
Prevost Gustave
(BE 1877/1899), rue du Pot d’Or, 27 in Liège. He acquired the
Abadie Ismaël
patents (18.05.1881) and then transferred them to the Liege armoury
Soleil Léonard
(1861-1899).
Prevost G. filed
10 gunsmith's patents from 1861 to 1899. When he died in 1899, his widow
continued the business (liquidation?) until 1903.
GG
Cross-referencing the different dates of existence and the hallmarks of the test bench gives us a date range from 1877 to 1893. Unfortunately, we couldn't be more specific.
Alain
Gustave Prevost
Rifle known as “of garden” of gauge 22 of type FLOBERT.
The barrel octagonal is striped. It is provided with a front sight with ears and a bead to drift.
The extractor is of a rare model and it’s certainly him which is the subject of the patent deposited by Gustave Prevost.
Indeed this extractor with cylinder is actuated by a pedal placed on the right side of the weapon.
While turning this pedal backwards, a small cylinder inserted beside the room and which, when it left, partially encroaches on this one so as to extract the casing by its pad.
Pushed back forwards, the pedal makes return the cylinder in its housing and releases the room thus allowing the loading of a news cartridge.
The hammer is flat of Flobert type with projecting rectangular striker.
Mounting is worked “with English” with a cheek on the left side.
The weapon carries the punches of the proofhouse of Liege, namely:
ELG on star in an oval: acceptance of use of 1846 to 1893.
R under star: countermark of the controller post 1877.
Period of manufacture: between 1877 and 1893.
Other markings are:
PREVOST BREVETE (PATENTS): it is about the mark of the inventor Gustave PREVOST, arquebusier and manufacturer of weapons in Liege street of the Gold Pot, 27. It was registered with the proofhouse of 1876 to 1899. From 1869 to 1899, it deposited ten Belgian patents of inventions including one with MARECHAL, Michel. He is also the purchaser of the patents ABADIE which he then yielded to Léonard SOLEIL.
DOZIN B (on the barrel): only an arms manufacturer DOZIN Mathieu arms manufacturer in Wandre is taken again with Who’s Who Arms manufacture of Liège. In any assumption, it is about a subcontractor even of a manufacturer of barrel.
BD: idem above.
Number 1: it is perhaps about a serial number but its site under the barrel leaves me in the doubt.
GG
