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Lefaucheux Mle 1858NT revolver

Made by the Manufacture d’Armes de Mutzig c.1859, converted to centerfire c.1873 – serial number 367.
12mm de Marine six-round cylinder, double action, side loading gate with manual ejector rod, new rear sight blade on the fluted part of the barrel.
When it became clear to the French Navy that they wouldn’t get either the Lefaucheux Mle1870 or the new Chamelot Delvigne Mle1873 anytime soon, they polished up their arsenal of Mle1858N revolver to use the same cartridges.

Posted on by Erik Chipchase

qsy-complains-a-lot:

Lefaucheux Mle 1858NT revolver

Made by the Manufacture d’Armes de Mutzig c.1859, converted to centerfire c.1873 – serial number 367.
12mm de Marine six-round cylinder, double action, side loading gate with manual ejector rod, new rear sight blade on the fluted part of the barrel.
When it became clear to the French Navy that they wouldn’t get either the Lefaucheux Mle1870 or the new Chamelot Delvigne Mle1873 anytime soon, they polished up their arsenal of Mle1858N revolver to use the same cartridges.

Posted on by Erik Chipchase

qsy-complains-a-lot:

Lefaucheux Mle 1854 revolver

Designed and manufactured by Eugene Lefaucheux in Paris, France – serial number 21218.
12mm pinfire six-round cylinder, double action, side loading gate and manual ejector rod.
Eugene Lefaucheux’s father, Casimir, patented pinfire cartridges in 1835 to fit his previous patent, the break action layout for long arms. Improved in the 1840′s by Houiller, this early design of clean-firing metallic cartridges allowed for a multitude of breech-loading firearm designs to pop up in France, Belgium, Germany… you know any country that didn’t have a patent on bored through cylinders or just wasn’t full of stuck up idiots.

Posted on by Erik Chipchase

qsy-complains-a-lot:

Lefaucheux Mle 1854 revolver

Designed and manufactured by Eugene Lefaucheux in Paris, France – serial number 21218.
12mm pinfire six-round cylinder, double action, side loading gate and manual ejector rod.
Eugene Lefaucheux’s father, Casimir, patented pinfire cartridges in 1835 to fit his previous patent, the break action layout for long arms. Improved in the 1840′s by Houiller, this early design of clean-firing metallic cartridges allowed for a multitude of breech-loading firearm designs to pop up in France, Belgium, Germany… you know any country that didn’t have a patent on bored through cylinders or just wasn’t full of stuck up idiots.