I am definitely not an expert on Francotte, but I did notice the AF with crown marks on both of the barrels on the distal end of the barrel flats. Additionally the AF with crown in oval shows up on the receiver.
I read a little farther along in the Double Gun thread (some of it got cut off when attached here) and I found the following:
"One interesting note – in June 1955 the A&F Francotte serial numbers, which had reached up into the 90,000’s, started over with number 1001 – a Knockabout gun. The number of Francotte’s imported picked up again after the war until the 1960’s when the sale of Francotte’s began to be overtaken by the A&F Zoli-Rizzini’s. Francotte continued to manufacture sidelock guns with serial numbers in the high 80,000 and low 90,000 serial range but these were not imported by A&F and do not appear in the A&F record books.
A&F imported a large number of Over/Under shotguns that, while they are not stamped with the Francotte name, do have the maker’s mark ‘AF’ in an oval and topped by a crown among the proof marks. These would also be Francotte shotguns."
So I think this may explain the serial number difference and the AF and crown in oval proof marks. It is possibly a newer (since 1955) Francotte imported by AF.
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