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POUR les p'tit nouveaux "spécialistes de l'ID"

Voila, je mets les photos dans l'ordre des numéros de demande et je les enlève dès que j'ai reçu la réponse.

Amitiés

Alain

Dde d'identification 4025

Dde d'identification 4026

I have made an earlier enquiry of my old DUMOULIN & CIË shotgun, to mr. Loïc SERVAIS, the Musée Grand Curtius - Département des armes. He advised me to be in contact with You. Can You please send me a detailed information of the shotgun's manufacturing history.

STORY OF RESCUING THE SHOTGUN

As I was queing to the Police weapons register service, in order to show one of my recent gun acquisistions, there was an elderly man queing just before me. He said that he gives his old DUMOULIN shotgun to the Police, to be demolished. I got interested in this old shotgun and its leather casing, so I bought it, and salvaged it from its demolition. The gun seemed to be in a very poor condition, while it had not been used nor maintained in a decace. After a thorough inspection of our shotgun specialist, Mr. Joni Vartiainen, it was noted that the old Dumoulin was still in a safe shooting condition.

TEST FIRING & MECHANICAL REFURBISHING

After firing a few test shots, I have

- dismantled the weapon,

- cleaned its mechanisms with both ultrasonic washing and by wiping parts with oily rags.

- After cleaning, I lubricated both the inner parts, as well as the outer surfaces.

- Barrels have been gently cleaned with a soft 12 gauge brush, and thinly oiled.

- Also, the lacquers of the wooden stock have been removed, and

- the stock has been treated with wood oil.

- I had to make new firing pins for both barrels, and

- replaced other one of their returning springs.

- also, other one of the strap holders was broken, so I replaced it with a rather similar part, found from a gunsmith's storage.

MORE STEPS TO GO:

I still need to take the weapon to a gunsmith, because after cleaning, its triggers have become too quick to react. In test shots, it was noted that especially its left barrel fires dangerously easily.

Also, in the future I intend to arrange a refurbishment for the leather casing, in collaboration with METROPOLIA UAS (Professor Ms. Anna Häkäri). Another possibility for leather casing issue is, to order a totally new casing, made by a leather artesan.

GUN'S HISTORY IN FINLAND

First owner: The shotgun has originally been sold in Finland for Mr. JAAKKO RANTA, who served Finnair, and lived in Helsinki area. In the gun's leather pouch, there is still a piece of paper, with writing: "RANTA, IMATRA - OK". Most probably Mr. Ranta has lived in Imatra town, in the South-Eastern Finland, before his moving to Southern Finland.

Second owner: Mr. PAULI SIEPPI, Inari, Northern Finland (brother of third owner's Wife).

Third owner: Mr. PAULI NIEMI, who bought the gun 1984, and registered it in Rovaniemi Police station, in Northern Finland. License number 1596/84 Rovaniemi. Pauli now lives in Eastern Finland, near Joensuu, about 40 km from my home. This was the man, whome I bought the gun, just minutes before he was going to leave it to be demolished for Joensuu Police.

Fourth owner, Mr. MARKO SALLINEN, Liperi, Eastern Finland (the undersigned). Gun was bought in 16.04.2026, but is officially registered in July 2026, after licencing procedures.

Marko Sallinen
Liperi

Kaivantotie 5 as 1
FI-83100 Liperi
tel. +358 (0)40 771 9314

Attached are still a few photos of the papers, found inside the shotgun's leather casing. These pieces of paper are assumably related to the original delivery of the gun in Finland:

Dealer company card:

ERÄ - Oy Eloranta / Pakkausjaloste Oy

(Erä = Wilderness/sports/hunting branch of the Eloranta -company).

Delivery card:

Ranta, Imatra

(First owner was Mr. Jaakko Ranta, who at that time seems to have lived in Imatra, South-Eastern Finland).