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Identifing Old Guns

BigBarnBigBarn Member Posts: 361 ✭✭✭
edited April 2004 in Ask the Experts
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Hi guys here are the pictures of one of the guns thast I need help with. According to the note that I have, it is an orginial one of a kind made by Charles Slotterbeck in 1890 and given as a gift to General James Rains. It has no numbers on it, and appears to be a 22 calibur.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
BigBarn

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  • Contender ManContender Man Member Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One beautiful old rifle, but well out of my realm of knowledge. Not sure how well using a link will do for you, but if no responses are forth coming I'll transfer a couple images over to the forum.

    Note to anyone accessing the link ... you have to click on pictures (to the left of the screen) and you double click on the image to get a large version.


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  • bigtirebigtire Member Posts: 24,800
    edited November -1
    It appears to be a better quality flobert design (boys rifle)
    The following is a c&p from a collector site:

    During the period from the 1890s through about 1920 "Boy's rifles" were very popular items for youngsters. (Why could you give 10 year olds guns then and they wouldn't shoot anyone, while now guns are banned from anyone under 18 but kids are killing lots of folks?) Anyway, Belgium was a major source of inexpensive guns, and many thousands were imported, often sold by big mail order companies like Sears, Montgomery Wards, etc. The most common action used was a "Flobert" design, this is similar to what Americans often call a "rolling block" action. Most Floberts were .22 rimfire (sometimes short, or long, or long rifle). Sometimes other caliber's are seen, .25 or .32 rimfire, or even 9mm rimfire, but ammo is basically not available for any of these. Even in excellent condition there is little collector interest in Flobert rifles. If your gun has some family history, it is probably a nice souvenir, if not, it is good decoration, but not something that is very valuable. http://www.armscollectors.com/faq.htm#Flobert

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  • Bert H.Bert H. Member Posts: 11,281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello BigBarn...

    I completely agree with bigtire... that is a Flobert action rifle.

    Bert H.

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