Description
Rare "Gay Guenot" system rifle with rotary magazine, with sealing, 40 shots, caliber 11 mm Barrel with sides of 46 cm, steel carcass with plain cheeks, flat, with safety on the left side. Sight of the magazine with chainette with sliding shutter on the top. Stock in drowning. White polished finish. Barrel N° 197. Total length: 101 cm B.E. (the spring of the trigger does not return). Gay PAULIN, civil engineer is the inventor of weapons with multiple shots, known as machine-guns of pocket, revolvers and rifles with 25, 40, 50 and 100 shots (1879) His dealer is Henri GUENOT, 183 rue Saint-Denis (Paris). It seems that GAY is the true inventor of the system with chain, called system Guycot (Lewis Winant). GAY & GUENOT made it patent in London on January 17, 1879.
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Rare "Gay Guenot" system rifle with rotary magazine, with sealing, 40 shots, caliber 11 mm Barrel with sides of 46 cm, steel carcass with plain cheeks, flat, with safety on the left side. Sight of the magazine with chainette with sliding shutter on the top. Stock in drowning. White polished finish. Barrel N° 197. Total length: 101 cm B.E. (the spring of the trigger does not return). Gay PAULIN, civil engineer is the inventor of weapons with multiple shots, known as machine-guns of pocket, revolvers and rifles with 25, 40, 50 and 100 shots (1879) His dealer is Henri GUENOT, 183 rue Saint-Denis (Paris). It seems that GAY is the true inventor of the system with chain, called system Guycot (Lewis Winant). GAY & GUENOT made it patent in London on January 17, 1879.
