Arms proved in
1889 at Liege, Birmingham, and St. Etienne respectively:
Single barrel Liege- 338,024 Birmingham- 28,146 St. Etienne- 4,352
Double barrel Liege- 233,526 Birmingham- 284,247 St. Etienne- 32,204
Total Liege- 1,124,431 Birmingham- 529,048 St. Etienne- 40,740
“Report On The Arms Industry of Liege-Diplomatic and Consular Report: May
1906”
Liege produced 850
tons of Damascus barrels (100 tons for export), 156,000 double barrel shotguns, and 1.5 million guns were proofed at the Banc d’Epreuves de Liege.
Jack: a couple of those more than a million guns out of Liege were probably not quite 'best' quality
But the Parker hammerless barrels were
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