An Idea Whose Time Never Quite Came

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Originally Posted by Lee

... I suppose that the real collector's item here might be whatever instructions would have come with such a gun about how to load it for safe operation...

How good is your french, Lee ? Or perhaps you can manage to translate your gun loading instructions, which you may find scrolling down THIS PAGE.

This is definitely a fine gun; the only reason for the museum of weapons of Liege to preserve one of these exceptional weapons under the reference (MAL 5058-Ah 39).