Louis Marquis and his first model revolver from 1934 revived

[FULMINATA]

Dear fellow Forum Members and Visitors,
(if you do not want to read all my Bla Bla, below is the link)

I am Martin. I am a newbie in this forum. I am a Militaria collector like presumably the most visitors here. I also enjoy a lot living my hobby on social media. For instance youtube brought people like us together and also expanded a vast amount of information.
I always wanted to be part of this community and when I finally discovered unpublished information I thought now is the right time to make something good out of it.
So I spent almost 1 year reading, gathering information, making a summary and eventually working on my first movie. Naive as I was I never would imagine how much work it was producing it.
I even had to learn how to cut videos. I produced all the pictures on my own (to not to be a content thief) and finally with my newly acquired abilities of cutting videos put them together to a movie. This movie is more or less a picture by picture animation.

Important note:
I uploaded the first version of this movie already 9 month ago (I made some adjustments and uploaded it today again). In the past months not one single time youtube has offered the movie to an audience. The few clicks and subs were from friends and family. Youtubes generell policy with such content is simply: no support. I found several articles about this on reddit. Sadly until now I made the movie only for the trash can.
That`s why I am asking, if you like my content please consider a subscription and leave a like. I know it sounds like this typical annoying youtube begging. But this is the only way yt can not ignore (shadowban) this type of content.
For all suspicious: Content on my channel will definitely NEVER be ai text red by ai voice and 5 boring images pushing over the screen. I have seen this lately several times on different channels and do not understand how this shi.. is trending.

But finally lets get into it !

I would like to show you a very rare historical weapon and you are the very first who will see it (no joke!) as there are no pictures depicting it and I digitally reconstructed it in many weeks while working on the documentation.
Because the information I found is from the 30ies, 40ies and 60ies and it was never translated into english. Moreover the weapon you are about to see existed only in technical drawings and the 2 prototypes ever made were sold to an anonymous buyer, were never taken pictures of and disappeared without trace. All the pictures you will see are digital reconstructions.

It would be a sensation if someone sees my post or the video and reaches out to me or this forum and sends pictures of the real weapon. But I think this is almost impossible. As the buyer might be a german citizen and as far as I know the possession of this gun is in Germany illegal. Especially because it can not be recognized as a weapon and german gun law forbids hidden weapons/ weapons disguised as other objects. More likely the collector already passed away (the transaction is now over 55 years ago) and this small boxlike object in the worst case, as already said above is not going to be recognized as a weapon. Who knows where it ended up?

For those who know already the belt buckle pistol. It is not about the pistol. It is about the direct predecessor, a REVOLVER constructed in the shape of a belt buckle. And this gun was never mentioned and never described, not by "Forgotten Weapons" or anyone else as it existed only on complicated construction drawings which were partially not right and its function was written in an complicated german patent excerpt. It took me a long time to understand the complete function and to revive this strange weapon from the dead.

And now here we are. Almost 2 years later. I have the information ready. I also tried not to present it too dry and made an entertaining movie out of all the dry paperwork.

One last thing: The movie isn`t short. It`s about 20 min. long. If you want to be informed about the whole case watch the whole movie. The presentation of the gun and its function starts at 9:30. The movie tries to cover all important points.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction Louis Marquis`s Belt Buckle REVOLVER
01:22 discovery of the belt buckle pistol
03:10 the reason Marquis built the belt buckle pistol
05:51 Who was the inventor Louis Marquis?
09:30 construction of the belt buckle revolver
12:08 function of the belt buckle revolver
14:25 demise of the belt buckle revolver
15:18 whereabouts of the belt buckle revolver
16:31 a new invention
17:16 sense and nonsense of a belt buckle pistol/revolver
18:43 epilog or conclusion

Thanks for reading and I hope you like it!



HERE IS THE LINK:
movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZh-mc0XPU
channel: Time Traveler - YouTube




If the link is not working:
The name of the movie is: "Louis Marquis`s Belt Buckle REVOLVER | A Brief History of a Forgotten Mystery Weapon"
The name of my channel is: "Time Traveler"

In the near future I will make a second part. I still have some information left. Moreover I plan more untold stories like the one in this video. I also plan restorations and recreations of Military equipment. I know this is a very difficult topic as every restoration can be also a destruction of the artefact. So, stay tuned.

Many Greetings,
Martin

PS. As I am not an english native speaker I apologize for any strange sentences. In this text and in the movie. I tried to give my best.

[Nozo410]

Hi Martin,

very interesting Video. The thumbnail looks interesting and catching but in a very Aesthetic and honest way. You can tell that you worked a lot on this. Youtube Videos can take a lot of Time and work, I myself tried to make Lego Stop Motion and about my Lego Constructions many Years ago, at some Point I lost interest in it because it was just to much Work, I respect the effort you are making. The Youtube Algorithm is as you say pretty difficult to deal with, I my opinion the Youtube Algorithm got worse and worse over the last years, it tries to show you lot of flashy trendy stuff even when you search for very specific stuff, there are Videos I know almost the exact Title that I can't find because Youtube only shows me the current more relevant Stuff.

German Gun law is pretty difficult as you say, it is high likely that it did not survive but there can always be a possibility that it somehow made it's way to safe Place. The current Gun laws here got more strict in the last years, I did watch a few Videos about it but from what I remember that you have when you own a Gun to make the Gun one piece and not like it was before that only the fire mechanisms has to be unusable and you aren't allowed to buy them in that state it from what I remember. But that is only in a nutshell the whole Topic is so incredible complicated. The only way for Display, Reenactment usw. to get any Guns here now is through Airsoft or Replica anything else is pretty much impossible here in Germany.

I wish you good luck that you may find any more informations on that Belt Buckle Revolver or even the real Thing but of course that is more wishful thinking but you can never know!
Thanks for showing, I hope that your Video and Post gets shared a lot!

Best regards
Nozo

[FULMINATA]

Hi Nozo,

thank you very much for your kind posting! And the support! I really appreciate it!

Honestly I thought there would be much more interest in this topic. Especially because it is really a completely new topic and nobody ever made content about this.
I have to admit I dont know how to make it more popular for the right audience. Do you know of a website or community where I can post it to?

Your Lego Stop motion movies project sounds interesting! Is it still online? How much views did you get per video and how big was your channel? It reminds me of the PINGU series I watched sometimes as a kid. I like stop motion. But it is a lot of work. So several weeks hard work for 10minutes movie and in the end its been played 20 times....Thank you YT !!! (ironically)

I have seen in 2018 when gun laws changed in Germany how everyone tried to sell his deactivated guns. Suddenly egun was full of offers for all kinds of rare guns and weapons. It was completely crazy. When I saw the new gun laws or what others posted online I thought that this is the end of collecting deactivated weapons in Germany. The market is completely dead. Now you can only buy EU deactivated guns. This stuff is welded into one piece of metal and magazines are crippled as there are no longer magazines allowed with a capacity of more than 10 rounds. But what am I telling you.You know it, of course.
If I understand it right this was altered because several years prior a criminal brought AK47 to the netherlands and declared them as deactivated weapons. In the Nertherlands they removed the poorly placed welds and sold the guns to other criminals.

Thank you very much again for your support.

Many Greetings,
Martin

[Nozo410]

Hi Martin,

I'm glad that you did share it.

I thought the same. The thing is your Topic is not well know and very nieche what can make it difficult, for example here on the Forum are some really Scarce Helmets but only just because something is Scarce or rare dosn't mean that there is a huge audience. Important is that you find an audience that cares about it but you have also keep in mind that on Forums like this like half of the Visitors aren't even logged in and not everyone writes, a lot People you are just looking without interacting what you can't really see. You can try to post it on Gun Forums and other Places like different Gun or Military Collection Subreddits.

The Videos are all Privated, my most Pupulair Videos where Lego Star Wars Builds some got a some hundert fews I think I had a video that had like 6k fews. I was young and the commentary was also like that xD. The Youtube Algorithm is pretty difficult, you could make few Youtube Shorts of your Video, that is one of the ways where the Algorithm usually pushes you. But I didn't really Upload since a few Years, my last Videos I did Upload are Vtuber Clips and some Archived Vtuber Cover Songs that got deleted, these Videos get over the time around 1k - 10k fews but it's only because People search for it and my Channel is pretty much the only one you can find that has some of them.

I can imagine how everyone tried to sell them. It is very sad to imagine how many Historical Guns potentially got pretty much destroyed but it can't be really changed.

You're welcome, it's nice to talk with you.

Best regards
Nozo

[FULMINATA]

Hi Nozo,

Unfortunately I was occupied last days and could not respond earlier. How are you? Hope you`re well! You are definitely right when indicating the topic is rather of small interest. I think I worked myself over month very deep into it without rethinking this, at all. Let`s see where the journey goes and if it will draw attention. In the beginning when I started with the research I saw how much tales circulated about this weapons. In 1966 right after the topic was fresh many fakers started to build such guns on their own and therefore the amount of forgeries is huge. I think there are only 2 or 3 known examples of this artefact which are really genuine. I will make a second part and try to explain why I think the ones I have in mind a real and the vast amount of the rest are not.

What I like is the "history of small objects" which can sometimes tell large stories. I like to buy or find stuff which promises a deeper background. It doesn`t have to be just military stuff. Especially when you manage to dig deeper into it and out comes something personal and unique. Or suddenly it teaches you an interesting lesson. Sometimes the object is personalized through an engraving etc. and you can feel the person almost standing right next to you. A lighter, a pipe, a souvenir...

What is your nicest object you had to think hard of before trading it? One of my objects I would never trade are the flying wings of my grandfather he obtained right after war when he became a pilot in 1946:
here is an example - it was meant for airline pilots.

http://data.numfil.com/images/fa_akt_nab/10886-01.jpg


Greetings,
Martin

[Nozo410]

Hi Martin,

all fine it's a forum you go Online when you have Time or feel like it. I'm doing great, lazying around my Weekend. I think the Topic would work pretty much for a larger History Channel, they always look for now interesting topics to cover, they can also cover niche stuff because they have the audience and can also make clickbait title. The difficult thing with niche things you have to find a community that is interested or that is just interested in new topics like history videos that most people just play in the background. I myself try to do most of the stuff for myself and when I find people that like it it's like a nice bonus but I don't do stuff attention anymore because most of the time it just made me depressed. I can imagine that there are many fakes of it because stuff like that sells, especially in Auctions Houses or Antic Shops lot of Buyers usually have more trust to the Seller than for example on Ebay, lot of Buyers don't really know what they are buying because they lack knowledge and research what is natural everyone starts somewhere, I myself also had some experiences like that where I bought like Post War MK2 Helmets as WW2 or a Czechoslovak VZ32 with fake Slovak Markings but I learned from all of that.

Yeah I love that too, I love especially the Aesthetic of Steel Helmets because they just give so much Character to whole Uniforms and it's just great to look at the old Paintjobs, Scratches and Wear. Unique Items are great, they don't even have to be expensive, there are also lot of very niche and rare stuff you can get for very modest prices.

I have currently some Item I would not sell like my Czechoslovak VZ28, VZ20 and Finnish M40 Helmet. Very personal Item that you have there, it's something that should just stay in Family.

Best regards
Nozo