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MH1919 Participating Member Offline Posts: 11 Location: Ohio Joined: Aug 5^th, 2025	Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Dec 10^th, 2025 at 2:48pm	Print Post
	I'm sure somebody on here knows exactly what this is. Please, share a little knowledge.


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ssdave Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 2056 Location: Eastern Oregon Joined: Apr 16^th, 2004	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #1 - Dec 10^th, 2025 at 3:06pm	Print Post
	Custom made rolling block pistol, disassembled, with british proof marks. Likely from 1890-1920 time period, think this when most of the custom pistols were produced by individual gunsmiths. I don't think it's a factory original, but instead is a rework of a factory one


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17459 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #2 - Dec 10^th, 2025 at 3:38pm	Print Post
	It was built on a #4 Rolling Block action from what I see.

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Joe Do... Oldtimer ASSRA Board Member ASSRA Journal Editor Offline Posts: 646 Location: 'burbs of Chicago Joined: May 19^th, 2012	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #3 - Dec 10^th, 2025 at 9:52pm	Print Post
	The Proof Mark shown on the barrel is Belgian, not English. The receiver is similar in shape to a Remington No.4 and may be Rem, but the extractor and shape of the breech block don’t look Remington … I may be wrong. This may be a Belgian copy in pieces. See if you can locate a copy of Remington Rolling Block Pistols by Landskron. Chapter 24 covers foreign rolling block pistols -&- Chapter. 25 covers pistols on Remington Rifle actions. The best advice I got from a friend that helped me a lot … buy one to two books for every gun you buy. A reference library is very helpful. … Joe D
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ssdave Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 2056 Location: Eastern Oregon Joined: Apr 16^th, 2004	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #4 - Dec 10^th, 2025 at 10:11pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the correction, Joe. I just guessed at the proofs, and I have the proof mark book, just didn't bother to open it! You're right about reference books, but you have to look at them to benefit.


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MH1919 Participating Member Offline Posts: 11 Location: Ohio Joined: Aug 5^th, 2025	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #5 - Dec 11^th, 2025 at 12:02am	Print Post
	Yuank you. I knew it wasn't Remington but had no idea what the proof marks meant.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17459 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #6 - Dec 11^th, 2025 at 11:40am	Print Post
	I'll dig out my copy of Jerry's Rolling Block pistol book today and see if he mentions any Belgian made pistols built on a #4 sized frame?

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freebird Full Member Offline Posts: 133 Location: South West France Joined: Sep 12^th, 2014	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #7 - Dec 12^th, 2025 at 8:01am	Print Post
	this is a fully Belgian made rolling block, and not a modified n°4 Remington. They also made boys rifles on the same receiver. I have given one to my nephew and have another one in the workshop awaiting much needed restauration.


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Sure shot Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1089 Location: East central Iowa Joined: Jun 22^nd, 2020	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #8 - Dec 12^th, 2025 at 8:48pm	Print Post
	In the 1978 edition of Guns Digest, there is an excellent article on Belgium proof marks.


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MH1919 Participating Member Offline Posts: 11 Location: Ohio Joined: Aug 5^th, 2025	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #9 - Dec 16^th, 2025 at 5:34pm	Print Post
	So, are they any good? The quality of the metal doesn't appear to be the greatest.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17459 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #10 - Dec 17^th, 2025 at 10:41am	Print Post
	MH1919 wrote on Dec 16^th, 2025 at 5:34pm: So, are they any good? The quality of the metal doesn't appear to be the greatest. That really depends on what they're chambered for, and if they've remained chambered in cartridges they were offered in. Many people buy these old guns and they have poor bores, so they decide it's a good idea to line the barrels and chamber them in something hotter that's easy to get brass for. That's usually when they reveal their weaknesses

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MH1919 Participating Member Offline Posts: 11 Location: Ohio Joined: Aug 5^th, 2025	Re: Help identifying Rolling Block pistol? Reply #11 - Dec 17^th, 2025 at 12:28pm	Print Post
	It's chambered for .22 L so that should be easy enough to check.Thanks


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