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I just received my online Cornell Publications Gun Catalogs.
She has an excellent booklet on Gunmaking in Belgium available.

http://www.cornellpubs.com/Templates4/Belgian%20Gun%20History-%20Vorisek.html

I saw that in their email this morning and ordered it. I have several papers from Joe along the same lines. It will be interesting to see what he published in this work. Thanks for posting it though.

There is new book almost ready for the publisher now in Belgium. I am looking forward to seeing that as well. It is being done by a group who resides in and near Nessonvaux.

Pete

This was sent to me by a reader of this forum in Belgium. I am afraid that I would be lost trying to stumble over the French however.

Sir, first my excuses that I not reply to your topic on the forum. I am affraid that my english is not good enough for the topic. I see that Cornell Publications propose a book on Belgium gunmaking and believe me there are other books that are more valuable that what Cornell propose.
1. La publicité dans l' armurerie Liégeoise et belge
2. Les armuriers de Liége en catalogues (1892-1930)
3.Le qui est qui de l'armurerie Liégeoise (1800-1950)
4. Quatre siécles d'armurerieLiégeoise or the next edition Cinq siécles........
5. Bayard-Les Hommes,les armes et les machines du chevalier-Pieper & Cie (1859-1957 bu Michel Druart
The first four are from the same author Guy Gadisseur. Even if you not understand one word of french it is valuable.
If I can give you my personal advise it is not a good investment to buy this Cornell publication.
Greetings from Belgium

Stallones,

I have all those books and a few more. Gadisseur's research is very good. The 1st two are a collection of selected catalogs. These type of books are very common in France and Belgium. The third is a Who is Who of Belgian makers.

The 4th is by Gaier, very expensive if you find an English edition, which is a poor translation at that. I have several of his other books. He also produced a major history of FN. His 4 centuries of gun maker and the later 5 centuries really do go into depth on the culture, history and interactions.

Druart who wrote the book on Pieper also worked with Gadisseur, both are known to Alain at LittleGun. Druart's book is ok, but I felt it could have been more. The problem is Pieper produced so much and was so instrumental to the growth of the Belgian gun trade. To do justice would require multiple volumes.

To really dig in requires a least a reading knowledge of French.

Many years earlier, Joe Vorisek produced a similar work to the Who is Who book. The list sounds like my friend Marc...

Pete

There's knowing French, and there's knowing gun French. I have an MA in the language, taught it in both HS and college, and lived in a French-speaking country for a couple years. After all that, I'm pretty much self-taught in gun French.