Need help establishing age - Mystery Markings!

[H Wally]

Need help establishing an age for this revolver. Not really any records or serial numbers to go by:

As far as caliber goes it's fine, but since the liege oval-with-crown proofmark started in ?1893? until around 1900 they won't confirm it's an antique without more evidence.

 

[dingus]

Yes that sucks cause theres millions of guns made after 1893 that are antique with no way to prove when exactly.
All the belgian guns i have got had the oval without a crown so made pre 1893.

 

[mooncoon]

your best hope (faint hope) is the crown over R which is a reproof mark. The * over L is strange because I think it might be french and refer to a type of powder. Bottom line is that it appears to have been reproofed with type L powder after 1898 and could have been made any time after the introduction of the crown over oval cartouche.

cheers mooncoon

 

[BrotherRockeye]

the star over L is an inspectors mark,can be any letter of the alphabet.

the crown over R indicates rifled barrel and was introduced for handguns in 1894

Richard and Dave are good guys to deal with.

Ask if they can provide a letter of compliance with Canadian/US antique laws.