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Originally Posted by Patronen
What I am comparing your gun too is illustrations in a reference book. Other examples of the revolver would be the best way for comparing the stamps. I'll try later to get some pics of the illustrations uploaded later for you to see. That's a good question as to who would copy a Galland. I am not sure if your gun is or not, it seems to be a quality product and usually copys tend to be rough looking in some way or another with regards to manufacture. It's the cyl. marking that looks strange to me. It may be some in house Galland manufacturer stamp etc. But the only thing I have seen that looks remotely like that mark is the Nepalese writing on my Martini-Henry from Nepal.
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I'm certainly not an expert on stamps and proof marks, but I'm comparing the ELG stamp with pictures from the internet and can't really find any major differences. Is there anything in particular that you can see?
The strange looking symbol on the cylinder is still a mystery, and it vaguely resembles the export stamp that you'll find as #36 on this page:
http://damascus-barrels.com/Belgian_All_Proofmarks.html It's obviously not the same, but I'm wondering if it's an older stamp with a similar purpose. Still, you never know where this revolver has been, it seems like many Galands were made for export and for military contracts, so it's entirely possible that it got this stamp after it left Belgium. Did IMA ever list any revolvers like this in "their big haul" from Nepal?
The quality is very high, everything in this complicated mechanism is very nicely fitted and works flawlessly, and there is none of the crudeness you'll usually find in knock-offs and fakes. Granted, I have never seen a Galand before but if this is a copy, it's safe to say that the quality would rival the original.