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Francotte Auguste
Very common model, but nice !!
Calibre 7mm pinfire
Francotte Auguste
This is a 12-mm spindle revolver, six rounds.
It comes out of the famous house
Auguste
Francotte and we can see more in our
webmaster’s book (from page 154) about this great house in Liège. And on the
site that the whole world envies us.
The two trademarks
AF crowned
and AF
in italics were registered in 1855 and
subsequently renewed.
In any case, the revolver predates July 11, 1893, as it appears from the ELG
mark on a star in an uncrowned oval, used up to the day before that date.
The mention Lefaucheux patented suggests that
Auguste
Francotte paid royalties to Lefaucheux.
GP with the help of HPH.
