Help Identifying a Trapdoor Rifle

[djandp]

Can anyone help? Only identifying marks we know are ELG with a mark below it. Easy to find firearms that are similar but none that have this type of action

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[mapsjanhere]

The ELG in oval and the perron (the candlestick) mark identify it as a Belgian copy made in Liege.

PS.: The long lever is unusual, looks like it's a single-move opening and cocking lever. The original trapdoor design required a two-step process, first cocking the lock, then unlocking and opening the trapdoor

 

[RJay]

It is a Belgium copy of a Reilly Comblain, however, having typed that I have to admit that I am not that smart, this question was answered on another forum by deadin.

 

[James K]

It doesn't appear to be a copy of the U.S. trapdoor or even the same concept. It looks like the breechblock is jointed (like a Luger pistol) and that the lever raises the toggle in the middle and draws back the front part to load. Also, it is not clear whether the projection is a nipple or a firing pin, that is whether the gun is percussion cap fired or uses a fixed cartridge.

In any case, it is interesting and I don't think I have ever seen anything like it.

Jim