Here is a article I found on the gun maker.

http://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=SERP&br=ro&mkt=en-US&dl=en&lp=FR_EN&a=http%3a%2f%2ftoepoint.com%2ffusil-picard-fayolle%2f

The shotgun mentioned could be one marked by him and made by someone else as Browning had shotguns made by Mirikou but marked Browning. It was quite a common practice in Europe. I have very old French 16 sxs that came off of a French Ocean liner it was nickel or chrome plated to protect it from salt spray, it has no makers name at all.

Clues to after market changes, are the barrels still in metric length, on the barrel flats do you see a 16-65 or just a 65 anywhere then it was originally a 2 1/2" chamber, a 2 /34 will have a 16-70 or just 70 on the flats. If there is no chamber designation on it, it was a 2 1/2" as it was built before it was needed.

If you can get pictures of the action and barrel flats it would be worthwhile to get on Doublegun even if you have to do it from someone elses computer at least you could monitor the responses on yours. They shape of the action, lever and location of the pins could pin down the maker if it was just retailed by Fayolle or more info on Fayolle might be forthcoming.

The sight mentioned above was the Geoffrey Gounet site and has shut down, I was a member there. I have a few French sxs's, Manufrance and Darne to shoot but I'm not a collector.

Last edited by erich; 07/24/19.

After the first shot the rest are just noise.

Make mine a Minaska

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