I bought a very nice Belgian 12 guage double from a guy who bought a bunch of
guns at an estate sale and didn't know what he had. He thought it had extractors,
I could see it had ejectors. It was marked on the barrel with the name of a gunsmith
Andreas Lauenroth--Budapest whom I assume sold the gun out of his shop. Markings
on the water table and barrel flats show that the manufacturer was Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes a Feu.
So I've been trying to do research on it. I found a reprint
of their 1910 catalog and found the model in there. Recently I found an online
directory of Budapest from 1900 and found an entry for the gunsmith.
Nev (name) : Lauenroth Andreas
Foglalkozas (occupation) : puskamuves (gunsmith)
Kerulet (district) : IV.
Cím (address): vaczi u. 60.
First of all, anyone familiar enough with Budapest to tell me whether vaczi utca in district IV was a good place to have gun shop?
And of course, more information on Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes a Feu would
be appreciated. And if anyone has ever heard of this gunsmith, that would be great.
Now here is the intriguing part. The shotgun has an engraved stock shield with a
crown, below that are the initials DNGY with the D and Y kind of small and the N
and G large and entertwined. I am guessing the crown indicates royalty, any
ideas on how to find whose initials these are? I'd be happy to send pictures. I can't
figure out how to post them.
