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Hello Marc

don't forget Guy Gadisseur..:
http://www.atlantica.fr/livre/21777/Les_armuriers_de_Liege_en_catalogues

Cheers,
Wolfgang

There is a fair bit of info on Belgian makers here:

http://www.gournetusa.com/forum/default.asp

As well as tons on French guns. Also Robert Chambers continues to frequent that forum, as do a few others from here.

James & Wolfgang, the links you both mention is not enough. The most interesting period is from 1900 till 1950 this covers a half century and is by far the most interesting periode.James, what you find on the gounetusa side is for 95 % posted by Robert chambers.
Our pride the gunmakers school L�on Mignon even have not 1 book about our Li�ge artisans. The Li�ge arms museum not show the a work of the 20 best artisans what we had. The curator who comes from a gunmaking family not even answer your questions. I give you an example: I had the intention to write an article on Nicolas Jacquet who was a lockmaker living in a little town (Cheratte) nearby Li�ge and was the lockmaker for most of the Li�ge artisans, when I asked the curator of the Li�ge arms museum if he have more info to write my article I even not receive an answer. For me it is clear, it is a shame that nobody is interesting to write about this for a future generation, soon this is gone for ever.
Marc.

Marc, you live in the area, you love guns, you know how to contact both Robert and Vic. And you can work in both English and French. Sounds like you should be researching and writing a book!

James, most of what you say is correct. I write around every month an article in my native language who is Flemish for our hunting magazine. I not have enough knowledge of English to write a book, of course I am volonteer to help and do the research and I think this is an important factor. Of course that book must be written in English to reach a bigger public. If written in Dutch with a big chance 500 people are interested if written in French maybe double and then I am optimistic. So the only option is write in English and in a way that Vic Venters wrote his book "The best of British".James,I give you and example, not longtime when I joined this forum there was critic on my knowledge of english and I even receive a mail, my mail is in my profile, I have nothing to hide with advise that I needed first study english before join te forum.
I not remember who or when it was but consider this a the truth.
Cheers, Marc.

Well Marc, you know I was just joking about the book. As far receiving emails criticizing your knowledge of English....there are idiots everywhere. I guess we have a few here.

Dear colleagues,

If Alex (Humpty Dumpty) will help with the translation, you don`t need to write a book because this book in most part is almost written.

Regards,

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Raimey, maybe it has been said before, but if you copy www.shotguncollector.com , the address, and paste it into google.translate, google will translate the whole text and include pictures. Very handy.


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Thanks Daryl, worked like a champ.

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New article SOVIET BOSS in the blog.
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