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Hi all, well seem to be on a Belgun kick tonight, so...what can anyone tell me about this maker? Good quality, any comments would be great!!
Thanks so much!
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I saw one on line a few years ago...might have been on steve cobbs site, seemed like a very nice SLE.
I am very fond of good Belgian Guns
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Hi guys and thanks! In fact I was looking at this one. Just wondering about the maker. According to Carders book this is a maker, but I would like to know more the maker and this gun.
Thanks again!
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Hi guys and thanks! In fact I was looking at this one. Just wondering about the maker. According to Carders book this is a maker, but I would like to know more the maker and this gun. Carder was an optimist. Pete
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Yeah, a cockeyed optimist. Me thinks they were a firearms merchant in Sarcelles but may have advertised as A.M. Mainwaring, Paris. Some may have used their name in the same sentence as Gastinne-Renette. Were G-R close or in Issy-les-Moulineaux??? Or did they have a factory there and then retailed in Paris where the money was.
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Just for info...Cobb's gun had the chambers lengthened if that makes any difference.
With a fine gun on his arm, a man becomes a sporting gentleman, both on the field and off.
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I would guess the longarm to wear Belgian proofmarks and to be from between the Wars. It is possible that A.M. Main-waring sourced both Belgian and French, with Fauré(Perin??)-Lepage(Henri)(of No. 8 Richelieu??) being a possibility till WWI. I think the probability of the longarm in question to have been sourced from Fauré-Lepage(Henri) is pretty low, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faur%C3%A9_Le_Page (copy & paste) , but with tube makers like Nicolas Bernard as an apprentice, I'm sure their reputation quickly floated to the top. 44 Rue - Des Petits - Champs Paris may have been the address of A.M. Mainwaring or one of their sources. Like many French makers little info seems to be available.
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O.K. all you A.M. Mainwaring fans, who was the successful one to rush and purchase this 83 year old Lithograph???: http://www.periodpaper.com/index.php/192...ing#description Dated 1928 I don't see the city Sarcelles, some 10 miles North of Paris; therefore, it may have been a shooting school or pigeon shooting area. G-R may have had a similar facility at Issy-les-Moulineaux. That is if all the Mainwaring names like Mainwaring & Cie at 65 Victor Emmanuel III Avenue, Paris are one in the same or heirs & assigns. Mainwaring & Cie seemed to peddle lower rung models. Kind Regards, Raimey rse
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Very strange, Mainwaring is an English surname and it is pronounced "Mannering"
Cholmondley also a strange but true English surname is pronouced " Chumley"
I am not making this up, I was in prep school in England 55 years ago, and we had examples of each. Both remarked to me they wished they had a simple Norman origin name like Bonner.
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