Please ID this barrel

[ChrisPer]

Don't worry firearms are attractive to us but the question is not one I can help with, in regard to the barrel. The numbers are industrial stamps, applied individually without the care a skilled gunsmith would usually use. Note the overturned W used as M, reduces the number of stamps needed in a set. The numeral style is at earliest 19th to early 20th century in my opinion, and the look of the superscript m to my mind is French.

This would be consistent with arms registration in the 20th century, when police or tradesmen not artisan gunsmiths apply the numbers. Perhaps Algerie Francaise registered all weapons.

[rickystl]

Kubur: Do you have a pic of the muzzle of the barrel ? Is the barrel actually rifled ? Or smoothbore ? And approximate caliber ?

Rick

[rickystl]

At the moment, the Post above by ChrisPer makes the most sense to me.

Rick

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by rickystl

Kubur: Do you have a pic of the muzzle of the barrel ? Is the barrel actually rifled ? Or smoothbore ? And approximate caliber ?

Rick

Thanks both for your notes.
It's a smoothbore, the caliber i don't know, it s a very very long pistol around 56cm...