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Fluted cylinder with 6 chambers, 7 mm, punch ELG. Sold as an Antique ~ no guarantees, warranties, or liabilities for any actual usage. Superb pin fire revolver punch AF under crown (Auguste Francotte), star B and R crowned on the barrel. This is an ANTIQUE and can be shipped directly to you in the USA or INTERNATIONALLY. The metal surfaces are mostly smooth with mottled gray patina. No finish remaining and has turned to gray.
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Yours is Simple Action and Double Action. Pinfire has been invented by Casimir Lefaucheux around 1830, Revolver with a cylinder and pinfire by his son Eugne Lefaucheux in 1854, with his 1854, 12 mm pinfire revolver in Simple Action. This revolver has, a flap with a spring opens to allow quick and easy loading, ejector pin is mounted on the right side to eject the spent cartridges, trigger guard and backstrap are iron, grips secured with a single screw, swivel ring on the bottom could be used to secure a safety strap. 7 mm pinfire revolver made in the city of Lige in Belgium. This revolver was well advanced beyond any of the American made revolvers of that period. This revolver is mechanically perfect and tight. Under the barrel is the ejector, the grips are hand checked walnut with no chips or cracks. Made by the famous Belgium high quality maker August Francotte. Almost all of the original blue is gone and decorated with hand engraving on the frame and cylinder. Closed frame and protected cartridge pins in the cylinder.
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Six-shot cylinder with mandatory Belgian ELG proof mark. THE GUN IS MISSING THE EJECTOR ROD, AND THE CARTRIDGE COVER AND ALSO THE CYLINDER ROTATER FOOT/LIFTING. Liege proof with makers marks of August Francotte. THIS IS A FRANCOTTE PINFIRE REVOLVER IN CALIBER 11MM. French 12mm Pinfire Revolver by Chamelot & Delvigne. Belgian 12mm Pinfire made by Auguste Francotte, for Argentinian gun dealer, Bertonnet.
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A rare example of large caliber 12mm pin fire revolver, 5 3/4" ribbed barrel with fixed front sight and notch rear sight on the bridge, no markings on the barrel. Barrel, cylinder, frame and straps deeply etched and engraved with panels of leafy meander. 12mm French model 1854 Lefaucheux pinfire revolver with American Civil War serial number.