Monsieur Andrê.—Good work; ornaments embossed; “Devisme” inlaying; carving and embossing unequalled; several English pattern guns, but of the standard twenty years ago.
“Thomas.”—Guns well inlaid; work medium.
Albert Benard, barrel-maker.—Iron very good, but all lined; bar apparently reduced from a mass two inches square, which tenuates the figure extremely, as the bars are only 1⁄4 inch thick.
Gastienne Renette.—All highly artistically ornamented; work good, carving very elaborate. A novel mode of breech-loading: a piece on hinge turns out, a cartridge, slides in return to its place, and a quoin like a wedge forces it up into a chamber; the wedge and head receiving all the force of the recoil.
Lenoir, barrel-maker.—Iron very good; thirty rods in a faggot 5 + 6, and welded and drawn down into 3⁄8 of an inch square: an enormous elongation of the fibres.
Doye.—Good English pattern-work—nothing else.
Fontereau.—Work, all English pattern; very good.
M. Brunn, successor to Armand and Bourbon.—Highly embossed work: a novel breech-loader; artistic design for cock; female figures with fishes’ tails in scroll on to the tumbler.
Guerin.—A novel safety guard; locks while on the nipple at half cock, and full cock; swivel double like a split ring.