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French Shotgun ID #442720 04/26/16 02:44 PM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey builder OP Sidelock
OP builder Sidelock Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey	Is it possible to identify the maker? I cannot find what some of these marks represent. Can you help? So many guns, so little time!

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442721 04/26/16 02:45 PM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey builder OP Sidelock
OP builder Sidelock Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey	So many guns, so little time!

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442738 04/26/16 06:52 PM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey builder OP Sidelock
OP builder Sidelock Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey	So far the chambers are 2 1/2", It is Black powder proof for finished and soldered barrels with a pressure of 14223 psi (pressure adjusted 1923) using smokeless T, It is choked with a range guarantee, seems to have won a prize at the World's Fair in 1914. barrels are compressed steel and something to do with an ingot mold. that is about as far as I can get. So many guns, so little time!

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442739 04/26/16 06:57 PM
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 5,533 Likes: 169 Amarillo, Texas skeettx Sidelock
skeettx Sidelock Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 5,533 Likes: 169 Amarillo, Texas	http://www.shotguns.se/html/france.html USAF RET 1971-95

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442758 04/26/16 10:59 PM
Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,618 Likes: 7 The Lone Star State ! postoak Sidelock
postoak Sidelock Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,618 Likes: 7 The Lone Star State !	Choke rectifie translates to choke regulated, I have been told by French speakers. Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442760 04/26/16 11:33 PM
Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 3,159 Likes: 319 McLean, Virginia Argo44 Sidelock
Argo44 Sidelock Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 3,159 Likes: 319 McLean, Virginia	"St Etienne".....town below Lyon famous for steel and gun manufactures. My wife's father is from St. Chamond, near St. Etienne....famous soccer teem ...wears green "Allez les verdes." "Acier comprime" - compressed steel "En lingotierre" - from an ingot "Choke rectifie" - regulated choke (extent not stated) "porte guarentie" - guaranteed "Z-F" = ZAVATTERO- FRERES. See following: http://www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,294905503,var,Catalogue-de-la-Manufacture-moderne-d%E2%80%99armes-de-luxe---Zavattero-freres---Saint-Etienne---100-pages,language,E.html for proof marks see: http://www.nramuseum.com/media/940944/proofmarks.pdf "cinq grands prix" - 5 grand prizes "Hors concours Lyon 1914" - All categories, Lyon 1914 Last edited by Argo44; 07/26/18 03:34 PM. Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442764 04/27/16 07:00 AM
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 2,736 Likes: 96 Derbyshire, England lagopus Sidelock
lagopus Sidelock Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 2,736 Likes: 96 Derbyshire, England	St. Etienne is where the French proof house is. Lagopus.....

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442765 04/27/16 07:29 AM
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 11,377 Likes: 105 Iowa L. Brown Sidelock
L. Brown Sidelock Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 11,377 Likes: 105 Iowa	Can't say I recall ever having seen Zavattero on a French gun.

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442770 04/27/16 09:05 AM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey builder OP Sidelock
OP builder Sidelock Joined: May 2004 Posts: 2,092 Likes: 13 New Jersey	Wow Argo, how you found that is beyond me. Thank you. I wonder what the initials in an oval refer to or who they refer to. It may be upside down in the picture. Also the circle things near the breech? So many guns, so little time!

Re: French Shotgun ID builder #442774 04/27/16 09:43 AM
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 5,533 Likes: 169 Amarillo, Texas skeettx Sidelock
skeettx Sidelock Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 5,533 Likes: 169 Amarillo, Texas	http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=205883 USAF RET 1971-95

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