A question for Patrick Chadwick

[cprher]

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Patrick,
These are the barrel markings on an FN Deluxe, serial number 1049X. Can you help me decipher its year of manufacture? Thank you.
Keith

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[browningautorifle]

Show us the rest, I have a Husqvarna in .30 cal...I like the way they look.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Well, they are all Belgian proof and examiner's marks. A close-up photo would be helpful as I can't quite read them.

The Star over a capital letter is an examiner's mark, and somewhere there must be a list of the examiners and their periods of office. Unfortunately, this seems to have been treated as a state secret, and I have never found the list for the 19th. and early 20th C. Known marks seem to be all post-1924, and this rifle is probably earlier.

Produce a better photo for ALL the marks, and I will try to at least narrow down the timeframe.

[CINDERS]

So I got on the barrel going top to bottom as the picture is orientated;
Star over Capital X
Crown over Capital R
Stick Figure with rifle at the slope then a line with capital P.V under the line (Thats what it appears to me to look like.)
Crown ontop of oblong circle with on the inside
E
L G (Formating wont let me keep alignment as per picture.)
*

On the reinforce on the receiver;
Star over X
Stick Figure with rifle at the slope then a line with capital P.V under the line (Thats what it appears to me to look like.)
Lastly what appears to be a Column ontop of a plinth!

Anyway hope this helps P.C