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That forend fastener sort of throws me. I don't think I've seen such on a Francotte offering prior??

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

No signature in engraving. Monogram look french but I have seen plenty of francottes with these fences.

I don’t recall seeing scroll in the chiseled fences though. Possible a french engraver did the gun and old Francotte had fences just chiseled. Also forend latch is French.

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Ce poinçon nous indique que cette arme a été fabriquée en France, ailleurs qu'à Saint-Étienne.

So, which came 1st the chicken or the egg? The platform wears a full regiment of Belgian stamps & one odd non-Saint Étienne French stamp?

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Auguste Francotte had a very similar stamp, but with a Crown I guess. But the position is that of Franctotte's Trademark, but I am open to discussion.

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

An older Gastinne Renette
https://www.littlegun.info/arme%20f...%20i%20j/a%20gastinne%20renette%20gb.htm



The upper mark is different from the upper mark on the subject gun

But let's sum it up from the Belgian marks. It has the preliminary stamp & it has the Perron, which denotes proofed in the final state. Now I realize that the lower AF stamp doesn't have a crown but, but had the longarm platform been made in Paris, why then would it wear the full regiment of Belgian proofmarks? If anything, it should be the AE French stamp that notes it was made outside France. Now I have viewed countless Auguste Francotte stamps and there really isn't a consensus but they all have a Crown. So the question that begs is why would a longarm platform wear the full regiment of Belgian proofmarks and also wear the mark of being made in Paris, or not in St. Etienne, a mark which the Paris retailers requested.

Does the longarm wear Francotte's name on the top rib or anywhere?

Serbus,

Raimey
rse