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The M1854 model was a single-action, pinfire revolver holding six rounds. [1] It was a French military revolver chambered for the 12 mm pinfire cartridge, based on a design by Casimir Lefaucheux (Eugene's father, who was also a gun designer). The M1854 revolver spawned numerous variants, some of which were produced under license in other countries.
The Lefaucheux M1858 was a French military revolver developed for the navy, chambered for the 12 mm pinfire cartridge, and based on a design by Casimir Lefaucheux and his son, Eugene (also a gun designer). The 1854 model was the first metallic-cartridge revolver adopted by a national government; the 1858 was the first variant fielded. [4]
While pinfire rifles and shotguns began to decline in use from the early 1860s onward, after the introduction of mass-produced centerfire rifle and shotgun cartridges, pinfire revolvers in particular became very successful and widespread, being adopted by the armies of France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and others.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Auguste Francotte of Liege was one of the largest Belgian arms factories, mostly manufacturing rifles and revolvers for export. Francotte's first breechloading revolver was Model 1865, double action revolver chambered for 11 mm pinfire cartridges, made for the Danish Navy. [3]
Type 26 revolver: Koishikawa Arsenal: 9mm Japanese revolver: 6 Japan: 1893-1935 Landstad revolver: Halvard Landstad 7.5mm 1882 Ordnance: 2 (+ 6 extra rounds) Norway: 1900 (never entered production) Lefaucheux M1858: Casimir Lefaucheux: 12mm pinfire: 6 Second French Empire: 1858-1865 LeMat Revolver: Jean Alexandre LeMat.42 ball.36 ball 20 gauge
They also made 7.92×57mm Mauser rifle ammunition for use in the British 7.92mm BESA machine gun and issue to European Resistance groups and the Nationalist and Communist Chinese. DIV Defence Industries Ltd. – Verdun (1940–1946) – Verdun, Quebec; Canada. A division of Canadian Industries Ltd. formed in 1939 to produce munitions for the ...
A five shot back-action revolver made by the London Armoury Company was used by Confederate cavalry. Lefaucheux M1854 revolver: A pinfire revolver imported from France by Union and Confederate officers. Lefaucheux M1858 revolver: LeMat M1856 revolver: Perhaps the most well known foreign designed revolver during the Civil War.
A 7 mm Lefaucheux revolver, used by Paul Verlaine to shoot and wound Arthur Rimbaud in 1873, sold for €435,000 at a 2016 Paris auction. [4] [5] It is thought likely that the gun with which the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh fatally shot himself in a field in 1890 was a 7 mm Lefaucheux pinfire revolver.