Hi all,
I recently became an owner of an 1878/89 Beaumont-Vitali. Cleaned it all up and now that I can see them, I was wondering if anyone has a source of information of Dutch proof marks? Its covered with little stamps of the crown with a letter below it -- sometimes an X, F or an M or C or S, etc. there's also another stamp on the stock forward of the date/location crown stamp. It looks like some cursive script letter under a crown inside an oval. Its about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch long.
Also, I've seen one source that says a charger is to be used to load the magazine. Anyone ever seen one of these?
thanks! - Jeremy
I recently became an owner of an 1878/89 Beaumont-Vitali. Cleaned it all up and now that I can see them, I was wondering if anyone has a source of information of Dutch proof marks? Its covered with little stamps of the crown with a letter below it -- sometimes an X, F or an M or C or S, etc. there's also another stamp on the stock forward of the date/location crown stamp. It looks like some cursive script letter under a crown inside an oval. Its about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch long.
Also, I've seen one source that says a charger is to be used to load the magazine. Anyone ever seen one of these?
thanks! - Jeremy