Interesting Steve. Yet as late as 1859, from this sketch of a Reilly, the standard British version of the Lefaucheux's gun shows a single bite. Now one must wonder if Jones didn't get his under-lever, double-bite design from ideas originally put forward by Casimir Lefaucheux?


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