I cannot tie the trademark on your gun to anything, but I consider it reasonably likely that the Alfa group which started making revolvers in Eibar and is still in business today is not the same as the one referred to in "Pistols". According to available information, "my" Alfa produced guns until 1925, when the slump in the gun business caused them to shift to sewing machines, and they became a large supplier in Spain. They abandoned guns completely in 1932.
The evidence is circumstantial, and their trademark on the sewing machines does look differently, but the fact that they produced revolvers for only a few years might explain why this appears unknown, unlike the standard known Alfa mark.
Given the fact that you say the proofs are Spanish, I don't think there is reasonable doubt that the gun originated somewhere in the Basque country.
|