Siptonon

[Garvin]

I was glancing at Bill Harriman's partial list of pre-1939 airguns exempted from the VCR Act and noticed this entry: "Siptonon". I haven't come across this pistol. Does anyone know what he was thinking of?

[Jimny4x4]

Possibly a trade mark / marketing brand name which in the absence of the maker's name - there but feint and hidden rust/wear , we now have a 'rare' unheard of Siptonon .. One day someone will find one with even the brand name eroded to ' Sip ' or ' ipto ' and then will be in for a hiding for nowt .

[ccdjg]

It is almost certainly taken from Dennis Hiller's "Collectors Guide to Air Pistols", pages 151-153, where Dennis has somehow misread the inscription on a Belgian Simonon air pistol, dating from the late 1800's and lists it as a "Siptonon". L.J. Simonon was a Belgian gunmaker based in Herstal, Belgium, who had a number of airgun patents to his name.
Details of this pistol, which now resides in the collection of Larry Hannusch, can be found in the Encyclopedia of Spring Air Pistols, page 115.

[Garvin]

It is almost certainly taken from Dennis Hiller's "Collectors Guide to Air Pistols", pages 151-153, where Dennis has somehow misread the inscription on a Belgian Simonon air pistol, dating from the late 1800's and lists it as a "Siptonon". L.J. Simonon was a Belgian gunmaker based in Herstal, Belgium, who had a number of airgun patents to his name.
Details of this pistol, which now resides in the collection of Larry Hannusch, can be found in the Encyclopedia of Spring Air Pistols, page 115.

Ah, that explains it! Thanks, John.