Looks like a fairly normal rifle until you see the spring inside the bolt handle. I love the videos that cause me to ask "what the hell?" Those are the most interesting ones. I also love that you can learn some world history from these videos.
I have learned about the existence of so many historical conflicts that I never heard about in school through Ian's videos over the last few years. I've actually been caused to further research many of these and deepened my understanding of how the world became what it is today.
@@TheKencoffee being Dutch I really appreciate the "didn't find themselves in a war" bit. Basically meant the Germans weren't that interested. Which fortunate situation held untill 1940.
This rifle, very functional as it is, really serves to show the genius of the Mauser system. Extremely cool to see a very early bolt action rifle, especially in such excellent condition
Wow ... 150 years old and still looking good!! That is a gorgeous, interesting, fantastic ... forgotten weapon! Never even heard of Beaumont before... Thanks to you, O blessed Gun Jesus - your followers are humbled by your knowledge, wisdom and ... THAT shirt ;-)
I would have a field day with this applying some acetone, ironing out the indents, filling up those cracks/dents, reworking the stamps to make them more visible and reapplying some boiled linseed oil. That thing would look like it came right from the factory.
@@joranvandersluis Er zijn periodes geweest dat Belgie onder Nederlands bewind viel and Belgie was groots in wapenproductie. Beaumont is een prima Belgische naam.
Yeah, the fragile V spring, still kicking after 150 years of service. Well at least 130 years, I suppose the Ethiopians used those as well anything else they could get their hands on while they were attacked from most directions.
In the first close up I noticed the bolt handle was two pieces, but yeah, never would've guessed it was because there was a spring in there. Very unique way of doing things.
In the US at least, it seems the beaumont vitali conversion was surplused just before ww1. You'll often see them show up in silent war films around 1916-1920, usually as a stand in for german mausers.
@Ian and @Forgotten Weapons The Beaumont rifles were also used by the colonial army (KNIL) in the Dutch East Indies (now: Indonesia) until the advent of the Dutch M95 Steyr-Mannlicher. The KNIL never converted their Beaumonts with the Vitali magazine to Beaumont-Vitalis, So this particular rifle may have been used by the KNIL too.
I don't know if you meant it to come out the way you did but you said that the gun was in remarkably good shape despite it spending the last 120yrs in Ethiopia! Does this imply that antique guns collected from Ethiopia are in general poorer shape than antiques from other parts of the world? Seems to me like it would be the reverse because in places where the availability of guns are much less, antique guns are treated as valuable family heirlooms and usually taken care of!
Most of the rifles that have been showcased from the Ethiopian haul have had no real finish left on the metal parts and some have had parts like rear sights just totally missing
Normally I have nothing to say, I just watch and listen and learn and like. Today however, I want to know, is there a link for the shirt? I want that shirt, I need that shirt.
Congrats for properly pronouncing "Willem", instead of just using the English "William" or the German "Wilhelm". No people, we are not some province of Germany. :)
Heads up, it's the Empire of Ethiopia not "Kingdom" since Ethiopia as a state was a union of different kingdoms. Menelik II was Emperor (negusa negast) and his provincial lords were all kings (negusitati). Menelik himself was only a king (of Shewa) before he took over as Emperor of all Ethiopia.
The development and adoption of this rifle in the Netherlands would have been during the reign of king Willem the 3rd, not the 2nd, the 2nd died in 1849. Interesting video though, I always wondered what preceded the Dutch Mannlicher in Dutch service.
This one does not look heavily used. So the spring should be quite good, since it was never really worked an kompressed. This is hell of a lucky find, especially if one looks at all the other rifles in that stash.
@@johannesvanhoek9080 I also have two whose springs are still great. One of them I got from a friend who I know took it to the range fairly often. I don't think the springs are quite as fragile as their reputation would imply.
Probably the rifle issued to my grandfather, when he was shipped to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to fight in the Aceh Rebellion, sometime in the 1890s. I think he was shipped there before the switch to the Dutch Mannlicher. He survived his enlistment. Retired in the Indies, only to die in a Japanese prison camp, in WWII.
My grandfather served 12 years in Dutch colonial service 1888 to 1900. I am fortunate in having the daily journal that he kept during that time. It's in German but we had it translated to English. Quite interesting.
@@ScottKenny1978 there are videos out there on YT. I have just about everthing sourced formed brass( made from 50/90 sharps) neck sizing with a 45 colt die. the scary part for me is the black powder as I do not know anything about BP loading.
I use 70gr ffg and the lee .457 400gr ...I just use the colt 45 die to neck size, then use the universal expander die to seat bullet...using the flat side of the expander plug. You're guaranteed to get lots of people coming up and asking if it is a Mauser.
That’s why I’ve been collecting for 30 years. The stories they could tell. Sometimes they do. I have a Remington 1891 that they actually took possession of, that ended up in Finish hand and swapped in Westing house bolt that ended up back here.
Same in my country Argentina with the Remingtons Rolling Block originally in .43 Spanish, converted into shotguns and "pistolones" (mini-shotguns in pistol format).
Hi Ian, great video as always. Question: I'd love it if you could do a video that's just about how you go about cleaning up old historic rifles like this one. Many of us have our own techniques to clean them without removing their history, but I'd really like to see your general approach and techniques given your experience.
Hi Ian. Love your work - have been watching you for good many years now. I know this is a nitpick, but when you talk about the lion stamp on the rifle, it is not "Lion of Judas", but "Lion of Judah". The lion does not refer to Judas the apostle, but Judah the kingdom. Small thing, I know. And it is only said at around 0:45, when talking about the stamp. Otherwise you say Judah quite clearly.
Nice rifle, and that is the better looking Lion crest I had ever see. P.S. After Adua Italy had to pay reparations (aka ransom for the prisoners). Maybe the funding for that big purchase?
I owned one of the single-shot versions as a schoolboy in UK. Impossible to find ammunition so I improvised. Because the round wasn't a fit in the chamber I had to wrap a piece of cloth round the action to prevent a face full of hot gas. I recall that the owner's name carved on the butt had the notation "1898".
As an ethiopian who is a descendant from soldiers in that period to explain for future videos warriors/ soldier’s preferred to shoot at close ranges like 50 yrs or less to make sure u got a clean shot and that it was a kill to conserve ammo cuz good ammo was so precious that it was used a currency a lot of the time so thats why they removed sights as such groups tended to prefer to soften up target with several rounds into a group of enemies then sling their various rifles on their backs to go in for the kill and preceded to go with melee weapons for 3 reasons 1 ease of using them 2 confirming the kill 3 to mutilate ur enemy preferably alive and bring back severed body parts as war trophies ( usually castration ) to brag to their families and communities that they were a really solider and not a “soft heart coward who was sitting around being lazy weak like a woman “
Cool to see one of "our" guns still around! Looking forward to more about the other version in the east indies! Willem II died in 1849 though so it must have been his son Willem III that officially adopted them though.
Your depth of knowledge is amazing. Very interesting to see the historic detours en-route towards the "modern" configuration of a rifle. I would have loved to see a cartridge that goes with the gun, however...
Ya I love how u can hear what militaries and governments were thinking and new ideas about manufacturing concepts through time and how they improved upon gun designs from 400 years ago until modern ar 15
Cool, Beaumont was a rich family from Maastricht a mid tier city in the south of the Netherlands, i live there. Their mansion is now a “rijksmonument” situated at the market plaza. I believe there is a series of escape rooms in their mansion these days. Some figures of the family got rich from weapon manufacturing they started out by making high end decorative pistols btw. Thats a very nice and unique piece you got there good job!
@@ScottKenny1978 would not be that surprising. not long before this the Netherlands was a for a while part of the french empire, and belgium was part of the netherlands as well.
@@robertlinke2666 Could be Maastricht in general was always a more French orientated city, when Belgium split of in 1830 Maastricht choose to join them, but Dutch troops stationed there prevented that luckily! The Dutch province that Maastricht is in is called Limburg, there is also a Limburg province in Belgium and it used to be also a bit in Germany including the city of Aachen which was the capital of the Franks under Charlemagne, greater Limburg is general was the center region from where the Franks conquered Roman Gaul etc and created France. Today the standard Dutch language is a direct descendant from old Frankish, together with the Saxon language they make up the low German dialects. The Frisians in the north of the Netherlands speak a bit more like English and Danish. Anyway i digress...
So, I'm out RV'ing - staying in a little town called Broadus, Montana - I go into the little museum in town today, and... it's full guns. And lo and behold - in that case is Dutch Beaumont. I have *never* seen one before [maybe I walked past one in Cody, but that place is... holy shit] - and here is one. Pretty cool coincidence. Ian should *definitely* get into this museum - it also has no time constraints for video production. He can take all the time he wants, and the museum staff *love* having road experts come in. They have a TON of guns from the late 1800s and early 1900s - a bunch of WWII bringbacks in wonderful condition. Brownings, Japanese weapons, lever actions of all types, a trove of shotguns... Ian could probably spend an entire summer here doing videos... And I know, I am going to next year! They have a saber from Little Big Horn, the *Smithsonian Verified!* largest collection of seashells west of the Mississippi. Local fossils, tractors, guns, arrowheads, and all kinds of quirkery collected by locals since the 1800s. It is an amazing little museum. And... the museum lets you touch things... I like that. *They* like that - they *want* you to touch the things. Yep - definitely going to hang out in Broadus a *whole* lot more.
@@CHMernerner it is actually the only correct name. We have two provinces called South Holland and North Holland but the country is called the Netherlands. Calling it Holland is like me saying Dakota when I'm referring to the USA.
Looks like a fairly normal rifle until you see the spring inside the bolt handle. I love the videos that cause me to ask "what the hell?" Those are the most interesting ones. I also love that you can learn some world history from these videos.
back in school in history lessons, we learned who won/lost where & when.
here i'm learning practically all the why.
I have learned about the existence of so many historical conflicts that I never heard about in school through Ian's videos over the last few years. I've actually been caused to further research many of these and deepened my understanding of how the world became what it is today.
@@TheKencoffee being Dutch I really appreciate the "didn't find themselves in a war" bit. Basically meant the Germans weren't that interested. Which fortunate situation held untill 1940.
The shirt matches the gun perfectly.
The shirt Is more interesting than the rifle
This rifle, very functional as it is, really serves to show the genius of the Mauser system.
Extremely cool to see a very early bolt action rifle, especially in such excellent condition
Wow ... 150 years old and still looking good!! That is a gorgeous, interesting, fantastic ... forgotten weapon! Never even heard of Beaumont before...
Thanks to you, O blessed Gun Jesus - your followers are humbled by your knowledge, wisdom and ... THAT shirt ;-)
I think it was just two days ago I was polishing my 1871/79 Beaumont.
Very interesting striker mechanism. I'd like to learn more about V-spring cartridge strikers.
I would have a field day with this applying some acetone, ironing out the indents, filling up those cracks/dents, reworking the stamps to make them more visible and reapplying some boiled linseed oil. That thing would look like it came right from the factory.
Me as a Dutchy would love to see more historical weapons from the Netherlands ^^
nice! ik ben ook nederlands
is dit dus een echt nederlands geweer?. beaumont klinkt toch niet nederlands?
@@joranvandersluisze werden gemaakt in Maastricht, beaumont is een stad in belgie
We hebben der helaas niet zo veel
@@joranvandersluis Er zijn periodes geweest dat Belgie onder Nederlands bewind viel and Belgie was groots in wapenproductie. Beaumont is een prima Belgische naam.
Yeah, the fragile V spring, still kicking after 150 years of service. Well at least 130 years, I suppose the Ethiopians used those as well anything else they could get their hands on while they were attacked from most directions.
I am happy they survived, their food is quite unique and very tasty.
@@Ammoniummetavanadate Well, I wish some enterprising guy would open an Ethiopian restaurant in my city. But that is really unlikely. Pity.
If you had asked me to guess where the mainspring was and told me it WASNT in the bolt, I would've never guessed the freaking bolt handle...
In the first close up I noticed the bolt handle was two pieces, but yeah, never would've guessed it was because there was a spring in there. Very unique way of doing things.
"For you Europeans [metric units]" - TIL that every country in the world other than the USA, Liberia, and Myanmar must be in Europe.
In the US at least, it seems the beaumont vitali conversion was surplused just before ww1. You'll often see them show up in silent war films around 1916-1920, usually as a stand in for german mausers.
great to learn gun history of my country.
I live in Holland.
@Ian and @Forgotten Weapons The Beaumont rifles were also used by the colonial army (KNIL) in the Dutch East Indies (now: Indonesia) until the advent of the Dutch M95 Steyr-Mannlicher. The KNIL never converted their Beaumonts with the Vitali magazine to Beaumont-Vitalis, So this particular rifle may have been used by the KNIL too.
No, colonial beaumonts were never updated with the m.79 sight and besides kept the safetylever.
Ian, has laid his hands on this rifle..... .
Awesome sauce
At this rate you seriously need to just go ahead and take a trip to Ethiopia.
Wouldn't recommend it right now with the civil war.
I have the boxed magazine version
Awesome shirt!
Always knew Ian was down with the ooogammagoo
Much of Ethiopia is dry. This may be why it is not badly rusted.
Most of these guns were also wire wheeled before leaving Ethiopia
Way cool!
Damn thats actually a mint hawaiian shirt 👌
I wonder if Beaumont moved to Texas later and then the city was named after him.
I don't know if you meant it to come out the way you did but you said that the gun was in remarkably good shape despite it spending the last 120yrs in Ethiopia! Does this imply that antique guns collected from Ethiopia are in general poorer shape than antiques from other parts of the world? Seems to me like it would be the reverse because in places where the availability of guns are much less, antique guns are treated as valuable family heirlooms and usually taken care of!
Most of the rifles that have been showcased from the Ethiopian haul have had no real finish left on the metal parts and some have had parts like rear sights just totally missing
Normally I have nothing to say, I just watch and listen and learn and like. Today however, I want to know, is there a link for the shirt? I want that shirt, I need that shirt.
This bolt is crazy .this is the next step up from hand making a muzzle loader 🤣skill level 2 jk
Hup Holland!🇳🇱
I love it! Can you shoot it?
Where can I buy that shirt?
Wil you shoot this one ian?
Congrats for properly pronouncing "Willem", instead of just using the English "William" or the German "Wilhelm".
No people, we are not some province of Germany. :)
Gekoloniseerd
no pew-pew? sad(
I AM sorry to say but GEKOLONISEERD voor volk en vaderland 🇳🇱
Heads up, it's the Empire of Ethiopia not "Kingdom" since Ethiopia as a state was a union of different kingdoms. Menelik II was Emperor (negusa negast) and his provincial lords were all kings (negusitati). Menelik himself was only a king (of Shewa) before he took over as Emperor of all Ethiopia.
Interesting, thank you
I'm guessing 'negusa negast' means king of kings? Similar to the Persian definition of emperor
@@royalhero4608 Correct! He was the supreme king of all the other subordinate kings or leaders of each region.
@@SelfRaisingWheat Awesome. Ethiopia really intrigues me, it has such a unique history
Resume of the ethiopian history: the virgin european, arabian or whatever idk vs the chad ethiopian, prove me wrong, go ahead, humiliate yourselves
The Ethiopian ‘stash’ is the gift that keeps on giving.
Yup! Insta-click.
Too bad everything is in like the worst shape it could possibly be in.
@@akaJughead my enfield from that stash was filled with dead bugs.
@@AppalachianTemplar I saw that movie! They are not dead... Just... Waiting.
@@akaJughead kinda comes with the territory doesn't it?
The development and adoption of this rifle in the Netherlands would have been during the reign of king Willem the 3rd, not the 2nd, the 2nd died in 1849. Interesting video though, I always wondered what preceded the Dutch Mannlicher in Dutch service.
Klopt als een zwerende vinger. Het was Willem de derde. Koning gorilla🤪
European made in a slightly more "modern" calibre. Also there was no need fore a real modern rifle fore the dutch army outside of the colonys.
Sinder and the beaumont rifle.
They were worried about the V spring holding up... Still looks good nearly 150 years later
This one does not look heavily used. So the spring should be quite good, since it was never really worked an kompressed. This is hell of a lucky find, especially if one looks at all the other rifles in that stash.
I have 2 Dutch Beaumont rifles 1871/88 and the V Spring is still in very good condition and works perfectly
@@johannesvanhoek9080 I also have two whose springs are still great. One of them I got from a friend who I know took it to the range fairly often. I don't think the springs are quite as fragile as their reputation would imply.
@@johannesvanhoek9080 apart from that, it seems like an easily replaceable part
@@remko2 Agreed. Not exactly something you'd want to do in combat but easily done by anyone who has a screwdriver handy and a spare minute.
A Dutch version, of a French rifle, from Ethiopia. MR WORLDWIDE
perhaps made in Germany, later upgraded with Italian magazines.
Could also be a Czechoslovak version of a German rifle from the same place.
I found one of those rifles in a outback while it's being pulled by a outback while it's parked out back of a outback
Dutch rifle, Dutch designer, made in Maastricht, a Dutch city... just saying
I saw one of these with the magazine at a cabellas in Wisconsin yesterday.
WOW! What didn't the Ethiopians get for weapons? This is great, so many variants that were fairly rare.
@@buckberthod5007 Comes with being surrounded by European colonies.
To give some perspective to the timing of this rifle, as they began to process of getting it, in 1867, Canada was becoming a country. July 1 1867.
Self governing Dominion within the British Empire?
Probably the rifle issued to my grandfather, when he was shipped to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to fight in the Aceh Rebellion, sometime in the 1890s. I think he was shipped there before the switch to the Dutch Mannlicher. He survived his enlistment. Retired in the Indies, only to die in a Japanese prison camp, in WWII.
Thank you for sharing. Sorry to hear about your grandfather suffering like that.
Very sorry to hear 😢
My grandfather served 12 years in Dutch colonial service 1888 to 1900. I am fortunate in having the daily journal that he kept during that time. It's in German but we had it translated to English. Quite interesting.
@@jimjones7594 very Fortunate
A beaumont could have been used early 1900 but the switch to the M95 Hembrug was fast. And interesting to hear he was pat of the Atjeh war.
It would have been King Willem the Third, not second. Willem the Second died in 1849.
I just bought a beaumont vertali. currently sourcing a means of loading the cartridges. dies brass etc are rediculously expensive.
I wish I had some leads for you, because I'd love to see one shoot!
@@ScottKenny1978 there are videos out there on YT. I have just about everthing sourced formed brass( made from 50/90 sharps) neck sizing with a 45 colt die. the scary part for me is the black powder as I do not know anything about BP loading.
@@Thedailygrind90 fill the case, leave NO air space!!!
Seat bullet.
Slightly compressed loads are good.
Buffalo arms sells it for $88per20rd box when they have it in stock
I use 70gr ffg and the lee .457 400gr ...I just use the colt 45 die to neck size, then use the universal expander die to seat bullet...using the flat side of the expander plug. You're guaranteed to get lots of people coming up and asking if it is a Mauser.
Bet that rifle could tell quite a few stories if it could talk.
Oh, it can talk. It can say BOOM.
Loose lips sink ships, enemy ear might be near...
Being from Ethiopia I bet it would say it's starving to death probably for some oil from the looks of it.
That’s why I’ve been collecting for 30 years. The stories they could tell. Sometimes they do. I have a Remington 1891 that they actually took possession of, that ended up in Finish hand and swapped in Westing house bolt that ended up back here.
Probably quite a warehouse connoisseur, tbh
A lot of these were also converted into smoothbore shotguns.
That would be a great little scatter gun in 20 ga.
Same in my country Argentina with the Remingtons Rolling Block originally in .43 Spanish, converted into shotguns and "pistolones" (mini-shotguns in pistol format).
..I want Ian to make a movie as a young Hercule Poirot..."Murder in Ethiopia" or something like that
Hi Ian, great video as always. Question: I'd love it if you could do a video that's just about how you go about cleaning up old historic rifles like this one. Many of us have our own techniques to clean them without removing their history, but I'd really like to see your general approach and techniques given your experience.
As soon as I saw the stamp I was excited to hear how you would pronounce 'Maastricht' haha, you did fine ;)
@@_DeadEnd_ Yeah it was pretty good, i'm also a dutch person ofc.
Hell yeah, best way to start the day! Love it when I get here this early!
I love the smell of historical firearms in the morning.
I’m laughing… 5min after your comment it’s 10:05PM here in Brisbane AU. Have a great Day anyway
On this episode of bottom gear mate we review a rifle
Ive bought close to a dozen rifles from RTI none of them had the lion of judah. and only 3 had ethiopian script.
Like no. 32, top markotop Muantabe from Jakarta Indonesia 👍.
very cool piece of history
13.08 pm, just sat down to my lunch, great timing Ian😀
Good morning! Have a great weekend
Hi Ian,
love your videos!
You're making anti gunners get up at dawn to be the first disliker for the new video. Keep up the good work.
Did the Dutch cavalry Remington Rolling Blocks use the same cartridge as the their M1871/79 Beaumont rifles?
Now, that's what I call a Dutch treat.
The entire surface of that rifle is dinged-up. It has seen hard service.
120 years in Africa will do that to you.
I have one of those! Mine is converted. Bought in Allentown Pennsylvania. At a store called the Occult Emporium. It's serial number is 666.
Cool!! Is it still shootable or is it just a cool wall decoration?
Two weeks ago I bought a M71 Beaumont from 1871. Exactly 150 years old! The M71 was the very first version, indeed with the safety switch on the side.
The wooden finish on that is beautiful
Hi Ian. Love your work - have been watching you for good many years now. I know this is a nitpick, but when you talk about the lion stamp on the rifle, it is not "Lion of Judas", but "Lion of Judah". The lion does not refer to Judas the apostle, but Judah the kingdom. Small thing, I know. And it is only said at around 0:45, when talking about the stamp. Otherwise you say Judah quite clearly.
Willem 3e was a nice figur 🤣🤙
Nice rifle, and that is the better looking Lion crest I had ever see.
P.S. After Adua Italy had to pay reparations (aka ransom for the prisoners). Maybe the funding for that big purchase?
Wouldn't surprise me!
I owned one of the single-shot versions as a schoolboy in UK. Impossible to find ammunition so I improvised. Because the round wasn't a fit in the chamber I had to wrap a piece of cloth round the action to prevent a face full of hot gas. I recall that the owner's name carved on the butt had the notation "1898".
Amazing design that was implemented at a time when many Armies of the world (including the US) where still relying on muzzle loaders.
Nice shirt, Ian.
Watched 7 20 22
- Å fan!
shave your beard, Nick Slaughter! :-)
I was wondering why that bolt handle was so massive. I had no idea it had a V-spring inside of it.
"Is that a V-spring in your bolt handle, or are you just..." 😜
As an ethiopian who is a descendant from soldiers in that period to explain for future videos warriors/ soldier’s preferred to shoot at close ranges like 50 yrs or less to make sure u got a clean shot and that it was a kill to conserve ammo cuz good ammo was so precious that it was used a currency a lot of the time so thats why they removed sights as such groups tended to prefer to soften up target with several rounds into a group of enemies then sling their various rifles on their backs to go in for the kill and preceded to go with melee weapons for 3 reasons 1 ease of using them 2 confirming the kill 3 to mutilate ur enemy preferably alive and bring back severed body parts as war trophies ( usually castration ) to brag to their families and communities that they were a really solider and not a “soft heart coward who was sitting around being lazy weak like a woman “
“beaumont adams is a girls gunn that just makes it plain stupid”
Finally I'm early to gun Jesus's upload
I love it
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Cool to see one of "our" guns still around! Looking forward to more about the other version in the east indies!
Willem II died in 1849 though so it must have been his son Willem III that officially adopted them though.
Your depth of knowledge is amazing.
Very interesting to see the historic detours en-route towards the "modern" configuration of a rifle.
I would have loved to see a cartridge that goes with the gun, however...
That rear sight made me vomit
Just got my grandpa's old one of these he used to display in his dining room, mine is one of the box magazine ones
Whoa Ian, I didn't know you shopped at Dan Flashes! I want that shirt SO BAD!
So much more advanced than our trapdoors and earlier.
Honestly the bolt reminds me very much of the Mosin
oh so my country did make guns
Love the content man. Keep doing what youre doing, were proud of you.
Thank you Ian, very cool rifle and history!
Ya I love how u can hear what militaries and governments were thinking and new ideas about manufacturing concepts through time and how they improved upon gun designs from 400 years ago until modern ar 15
Me too!
Thank you Ian great video!
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What an awesome piece! I need to keep my eyes open.
Wanting that shirt 👀
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Being Dutch myself, This is very interesting to watch
Cool shirt
Cool, Beaumont was a rich family from Maastricht a mid tier city in the south of the Netherlands, i live there. Their mansion is now a “rijksmonument” situated at the market plaza. I believe there is a series of escape rooms in their mansion these days. Some figures of the family got rich from weapon manufacturing they started out by making high end decorative pistols btw. Thats a very nice and unique piece you got there good job!
Makes me wonder if there's any relation to Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont.
@@ScottKenny1978 would not be that surprising.
not long before this the Netherlands was a for a while part of the french empire, and belgium was part of the netherlands as well.
@@robertlinke2666 Could be Maastricht in general was always a more French orientated city, when Belgium split of in 1830 Maastricht choose to join them, but Dutch troops stationed there prevented that luckily! The Dutch province that Maastricht is in is called Limburg, there is also a Limburg province in Belgium and it used to be also a bit in Germany including the city of Aachen which was the capital of the Franks under Charlemagne, greater Limburg is general was the center region from where the Franks conquered Roman Gaul etc and created France. Today the standard Dutch language is a direct descendant from old Frankish, together with the Saxon language they make up the low German dialects. The Frisians in the north of the Netherlands speak a bit more like English and Danish. Anyway i digress...
@@Judge_Magister ik ben nederlands, en hoewel ik het meeste hiervan wist, niet alles.
So, I'm out RV'ing - staying in a little town called Broadus, Montana - I go into the little museum in town today, and... it's full guns. And lo and behold - in that case is Dutch Beaumont. I have *never* seen one before [maybe I walked past one in Cody, but that place is... holy shit] - and here is one. Pretty cool coincidence. Ian should *definitely* get into this museum - it also has no time constraints for video production. He can take all the time he wants, and the museum staff *love* having road experts come in. They have a TON of guns from the late 1800s and early 1900s - a bunch of WWII bringbacks in wonderful condition. Brownings, Japanese weapons, lever actions of all types, a trove of shotguns... Ian could probably spend an entire summer here doing videos... And I know, I am going to next year!
They have a saber from Little Big Horn, the *Smithsonian Verified!* largest collection of seashells west of the Mississippi. Local fossils, tractors, guns, arrowheads, and all kinds of quirkery collected by locals since the 1800s. It is an amazing little museum.
And... the museum lets you touch things... I like that. *They* like that - they *want* you to touch the things.
Yep - definitely going to hang out in Broadus a *whole* lot more.
Thank you for calling our country "the Netherlands" instead of "Holland" like most people do!
I didn't know Netherlands is preferred name. 😀
@@CHMernerner it is actually the only correct name. We have two provinces called South Holland and North Holland but the country is called the Netherlands. Calling it Holland is like me saying Dakota when I'm referring to the USA.
@@EnigmaNL well I learned something today.