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Originally Posted by M ELEY
...I had a look at that mark and I'm almost 100% positive that it is a V and not a W under the crown. British private purchase, I'm assuming.
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Private purchase ... 'one' possibility; as not an official contract. I wouldn't see the Brits importing guns from Liege with their local oval mark ... and later missing their own proof marks. The (imprecise) V under the crown on the lock plate, to my humble view, would hardly be the British proof mark created around 1670. I dare say ir is the mark of a Liege lock maker ... or spurious suff ?
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Originally Posted by M ELEY
controlled Belgium at the time?
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Napoleon controlled Liege in 1810.It was under his rule that the mark
LG in the oval was created ... and strictly enforced.
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... Here are some Leige markings, the earliest resembling a candlestick?
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The famous
Perron (meaning steps ... of a tower). It was Liege's own mark, but it had no such strict enforcement.