| lancaster |
| (.470 member) |
| 04/05/19 05:21 AM |
Re: a simple single shot
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of course, I have an interest to date the gun
working back now step by step, my own SN is 5299
here is SN 20576 "Based on its serial number, 20576 had been made around 1892, when Belgium’s colonial empire and the Liège gun trade were near their peak and Auguste Francotte was one of Liège’s most important makers of sporting guns. Von Lengerke & Detmold, a Manhattan-based establishment that catered to New York’s wealthy sporting set, imported the gun roundabout then. At the time VL&D sold a wide variety of guns, American and English, and especially Continental brands such as J.P. Sauer, Mauser, Greifelt, Mannlicher-Schoenauer and, most successfully, boxlock shotguns made by Francotte in a range of models."
https://shootingsportsman.com/pleissners-francotte/
15000 guns later in 1892, wonder if the small 1874 stamp is showing the year it was made