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Originally Posted by Norman McCormick
...Has anybody got any concrete sources for the use of these pistols in the early part of the 19thC specifically the Napoleonic ...
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Hardly Norman; the French had their own style, a completly
DIFFERENT THING, as reported all over.
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Originally Posted by Norman McCormick
... The crowned V in Marks example would indicate a date of post 1853 ...
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So, if this was a real Liege crowned V mark, do you find it normal that in 1853 they were still producing flintlock pistols ? maybe for some specific reason ?