brevete

brevete, or so i'm told is french for patented. you'll see it on a lot of belgiium guns as well. i had a customer who needed a bolt assembly for a .22 single shot. it had brevete marked on the top of the reciever with a number stamped underneath it. i couldn't find a bolt and was told i probably never would. that it was old and the europeans played pretty fast and loose with patent numbers and such. it was classed as a JABC (just another belgium clunker) . no other name on this gun? where did you get it? any idea how old it is? it could have been imported from france under a trade name.need more info if any is available.
 
12magnum said:
brevete, or so i'm told is french for patented. you'll see it on a lot of belgiium guns as well. i had a customer who needed a bolt assembly for a .22 single shot. it had brevete marked on the top of the reciever with a number stamped underneath it. i couldn't find a bolt and was told i probably never would. that it was old and the europeans played pretty fast and loose with patent numbers and such. it was classed as a JABC (just another belgium clunker) . no other name on this gun? where did you get it? any idea how old it is? it could have been imported from france under a trade name.need more info if any is available.
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Not all Belgian guns were clunkers.
 
didn't mean all belgium guns are clunkers!!!! some made in liege were pretty nice. good line of browning auto 5 's. the point is that there are a ton of virtually no name european ( alot from belgium) that were imported into north america under names like amercan arms company,j.c.higgins etc. and years down the road finding parts or any info on some of these guns is impossible. today some aren't trade names!! remingtons line of spartans in made in russia!! didn't mean to offend anyone. sorry
 
the only thing i found on the net was ,, st. etienne is an industrial area of france ,,so i'm assuming it's manufactured there . someone said its a copy of a savage. it looks almost the same as my 870. i'm assuming its about 20 years oldmaybe 30 . it came from a friend of mines father in law. they couldn't be bothered with the registry here.
 
that's probably where it was made. beyond that who knows,well probably somebody does, but there's a lot of this kind of thing out there and without a model number, manufactuers name where someone has it recorded it's anybodys guess. over the years there has been all kinds of small european manufacturers, who copied gun styles from other makers and even included that makers name to some degree on the gun, but not enough of the name to get into trouble,just enough to try and fool buyers.purdy's , woodward, H&H have all been copied to some degree. good luck
 
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