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
Comblain - Oury
Here is a nice 7 mm pinfire revolver, engraved, signed Comblain and Oury
Breveté, and on the barrel Fabrique de Lepage Frères in Liège, Maison à Paris 12
rue d’Enghien.
Ivory (or bone) grips, folding trigger.
The markings
Lepage Brothers in Liège: company registered in
proofhouse of Liège from 1857 to 1868; according to Jarlier-Buigné: Henri and
Perrin Lepage, active between 1823 -1860; they are reported in fact 12 rue
d’Enghien in Paris in 1856.
Finot to Autun: unknown.
ELG on star in oval: accepted, in use between 1846 and
1893;
U crowned: countermark of a controller, in use between
1853 and 1877;
Comblain Hubert Joseph: armourer in Wandre, who
deposited nineteen patents between 1854 and 1891;
But he was also associated with Henri Mangeot.
Oury: he must be J. J. Oury of Saint-Remy, since he
filed four patents between 1859 and 1864, the period in question;
One of the two patents I own from JJ Oury, 8531 of
January 24, 1860, evokes a small H coin on the left side that allows the barrel
to be detached from the barrel axis. It could be said that it is the prelude to
the coin in kind of S which we see on the right side of the copy in question.
This S-piece is much more practical than the small H-piece of patent 8531.
But we do not have the said patent for this S-shaped
part, if there is one.
Result: either the patent on the S-piece exists, and we
may find it one day; the term “patented” should be used in the meaning of
“patent holder(s)“, not necessarily in relation to the weapon in question;
either the fact that one of the two gunsmiths held a certificate/diploma as a
gunsmith....
GP with the help of MAX
