RARE & UNUSUAL SYSTEM HAAKEN-PLOMDEUR BEGIAN COPY OF A WESSON & LEAVITT PERCUSSION REVOLVER.

RARE & UNUSUAL SYSTEM HAAKEN-PLOMDEUR BEGIAN COPY OF A WESSON & LEAVITT PERCUSSION REVOLVER. SN 8. Cal. 36. Extremely well made Belgian copy of the Wesson & Leavitt revolver with improvements. It has a 6-3/4″ oct bbl that has twelve lands & grooves in the bore, mushroom pin front sight and integral V-notch rear sight in the top strap. Top strap is inlaid in flat gold “SYSTEME HAAKEN-PLOMDEUR”. Built like the Wesson & Leavitt and later the Mass Arms revolvers with tip up bbl and no bottom frame. The cyl arbor is slotted for the bbl latch which hooks into a spring loaded tip, an improvement over the American revolvers. It has a small rounded frame with flat sides and attached trigger guard. Cyl, like the Wesson & Leavitt and Savage Arms has a convex front face with angled nipple recesses and flat rear face with cyl stop holes aligned with each nipple and another hole near the spindle hole which engages a pin on the rotating collar. It has a curved back action lock like the American versions with very highly finished internal parts. It has a long narrow steel back strap with integral butt strap that screw mounts at the top and is secured with a wood screw into the grip through the butt strap. Grip is wonderfully relief carved 1-pc walnut that is very nicely detailed in foliate arabesque & floral designs with a fine stippled background. Bottom panels on each side are carved in pine cone or snakeskin designs. Frame, lockplate, hammer & cyl are very nicely engraved in patterns that match the carving on the grips with foliate floral & arabesque patterns all intertwined, with a fine matted band around the rear edge of the cyl. SN is found on the bottom of the bbl at the frame, rear face of cyl & top flat of cyl spindle. Rear face of cyl is also is stamped “HP”. Bottom of bbl is stamped “HAAKEN-PLOMDEUR” in an arc just forward of the SN. Accompanied by a copy of the June 1962 The Gun Report which contains a 3-page article by Graham Burnside on this exact pistol. CONDITION: Very fine. Bbl & top strap retain about 90% glossy orig blue with edge wear and a few scattered spots of light pitting. Frame retains case color on the very top with the balance faded to silver. Lockplate & hammer are also faded to silver. Cyl is a clean gray metal patina. Back strap also is a gray metal patina. Grip is sound, dark & oil stained with orig finish on bottom edges. Mechanics are fine, bright shiny bore. 4-39892 JR350 (3,000-5,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2010

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	2456	$3,162.50	RARE & UNUSUAL SYSTEM HAAKEN-PLOMDEUR BEGIAN COPY OF A WESSON & LEAVITT PERCUSSION REVOLVER. SN 8. Cal. 36. Extremely well made Belgian copy of the Wesson & Leavitt revolver with improvements. It has a 6-3/4″ oct bbl that has twelve lands & grooves in the bore, mushroom pin front sight and integral V-notch rear sight in the top strap. Top strap is inlaid in flat gold “SYSTEME HAAKEN-PLOMDEUR”. Built like the Wesson & Leavitt and later the Mass Arms revolvers with tip up bbl and no bottom frame. The cyl arbor is slotted for the bbl latch which hooks into a spring loaded tip, an improvement over the American revolvers. It has a small rounded frame with flat sides and attached trigger guard. Cyl, like the Wesson & Leavitt and Savage Arms has a convex front face with angled nipple recesses and flat rear face with cyl stop holes aligned with each nipple and another hole near the spindle hole which engages a pin on the rotating collar. It has a curved back action lock like the American versions with very highly finished internal parts. It has a long narrow steel back strap with integral butt strap that screw mounts at the top and is secured with a wood screw into the grip through the butt strap. Grip is wonderfully relief carved 1-pc walnut that is very nicely detailed in foliate arabesque & floral designs with a fine stippled background. Bottom panels on each side are carved in pine cone or snakeskin designs. Frame, lockplate, hammer & cyl are very nicely engraved in patterns that match the carving on the grips with foliate floral & arabesque patterns all intertwined, with a fine matted band around the rear edge of the cyl. SN is found on the bottom of the bbl at the frame, rear face of cyl & top flat of cyl spindle. Rear face of cyl is also is stamped “HP”. Bottom of bbl is stamped “HAAKEN-PLOMDEUR” in an arc just forward of the SN. Accompanied by a copy of the June 1962 The Gun Report which contains a 3-page article by Graham Burnside on this exact pistol. CONDITION: Very fine. Bbl & top strap retain about 90% glossy orig blue with edge wear and a few scattered spots of light pitting. Frame retains case color on the very top with the balance faded to silver. Lockplate & hammer are also faded to silver. Cyl is a clean gray metal patina. Back strap also is a gray metal patina. Grip is sound, dark & oil stained with orig finish on bottom edges. Mechanics are fine, bright shiny bore. 4-39892 JR350 (3,000-5,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2010 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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