Here are dates of the manufactures of 1715 to 1870

Before the revolution the locks bore simply the name of origin like “Saint Etienne”.

During the unquestionable revolution manufactures were put in “sleep”, have in created the provisional ones like bets and of other.

The weapons became revolutionists the following the example of N°1

CHARLEVILLE became “LIBREVILLE”

As have used and re-used all the weapons of the model 1777 of Ancien Régime one kept their names.

That changed after the consulate have had the imperial manufacture of Saint Etienne, Maubeuge, Charleville, Liege, Mutzig, Tulle,

And when the empire ceased in 1814:

Royal manufacture of .......

Re Imperial manufacture of ........

Re Royal manufacture

The first republic

Manufacture national ...........

Second empire

Re Imperial manufacture of ...........

Here how that functions locks markings of rifles.

Cordially

 @lain

I have to forget to specify that the national word (Nal) was observed on locks of large manufactures like Tulle and St Etienne and of 1848 to 1852 for the 1st Republic of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and after 1870 the “young” Belgium with much used the 1777 pure and AN IX & an industrial quantity of rifle Model 1816 let us not forget the Americans, Italian, Swiss the Austrians bus at the all beginnings of the flintlocks it existed only France and “Anglois” ........!!!!!!!!!

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