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Prompted by popular demande (i.e. Raimey), here is the data on C. Mode.

Born July 26 1870 at 4PM from Pierre Mode, cartwright and Adele Faure, laundress at 1, rue du marche 15eme, Paris.
Married to Adrienne Lelievre on 3/1/1910 in Chaville.
Living 91, rue de Richelieu, 2eme, Paris

Written in 1923:
Worked from 1894 to 1910 for the SFM, an ammunition company.
Was head of sales for Lefaucheux/Rieger from 1910 on.
Owner of Lefaucheux from 1914. Owner of Pirlet & Cie.
Was drafted in 1890 for 3 years as a non-commissioned officer in the infantry, drafted back from 1915 to 1918. Was used as a worker at SFM his former employer. The shop was closed from 1914 to the end of the war.
Received prizes in many exhibition from Turin 1911 to Rio de Janeiro 1922.
Assigned patents: 455.208 dated 5/13, 496.279 3/18, 499.505 3/18.
No crime committed.

Ordained knight of the L of H on 4/20/1923.

There is no data on his demise.

Interesting letter here.

Note that he was able to reach a very respectable social position while coming from a very modest background. He bought Lefaucheux shortly after Rieger's death in 1913.

The Legion of Honor files are bringing out amazing data never ferreted out before!

Hope this helps...

WC-

WC:
I really appreciate the effort. You are not one of the Legionnaires are you?

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Nope, just found the way to mine it.
WC-

Note that in that lovely find that J. Chevalier was successor to Eugene Lefaucheux, or did we already know that?

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbt...true#Post315903

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

So I guess M. Mode was active prior to 1834? Most interesting.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

I guess if my name was C�lestin Jules Mod�, I'd sign C. Mod� also.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

I find it a bit difficult to believe that a brace of percussion dueling pistols wearing C. Mod�, Armurier Bte. Paris 0.47" Calibre were made post 1894?

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Well, surprising for sure, but the mores of the upper crust are usually more resilient than one might think.
Still, they would have to have been made post WWI. Any proof mark of any kind?
Celestin was certainly not part of a dynasty. I doubt that a cartwright could have built those pistols.
BTW the patronym is not common. There is only one listed in the L of H directory vs five Gastinne and over 300 Guyots.

I am gonna mine this vein all the way.
Any requests for other names?
Weill, Callens, Verney-carron etc.
Just let me know.

I already looked for Nicolas Guyot, and he is not in there.

WC-

Although possible, I can't see that stepped lock design making it past say 1900. Not sure of any proofmarks and have just seen images of the cased pair.

Let's see:

Pirlet for sure.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

There is no Pirlet in the proper time frame.
WC-