I recently saw this revolver at a local gun shop - caliber 7mm, SN 1068 - no other inscriptions, markings, stamps etc. are visible. I assume it dates from the 1860s/1870s. Since there are no proof marks, I assume it does not come from Belgium (like so many other pin fire revolvers).
Does anybody knows more about this nice revolver (manufacturer, country of origin, dating, etc.)?
Je ne connais pas, mais il serait peut-être intéressant de poser la question à A.Daubresse auteur d’une intéressante documentation sur les armes liégeoises - alantrigger01@hotmail.com
Comme je pensais que ce n’était pas un revolver belge (absence de “proof marks” - comment on appelle ça en français ? ), je n’ai pas cherché dans les livres d’Alain Daubresse…
Actually I found it! Page 240 of Systeme Lefaucheux. It is the Alexander Guerriero patent. This looks like the French version in the patent picture but he also did a US version and the patent model is in the Smithsonian collection:
I have contacted Alain Daubresse. He could not say anything about the manufacturer, he neither confirmed nor denied my guess about the production period (1860s/1870s) and does not completely exclude that the gun comes from Belgium…
Pin fire revolvers are not my collecting area nevertheless I like this obviously unusual and nice looking revolver more and more - I consider to buy it.