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A Fine Cased French 54-Bore Percussion Target Pistol
By Gastinne Renette A Paris, No. 567, Dated 1849

Antique Arms and Armour
6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Cased French 54-Bore Percussion Target Pistol
By Gastinne Renette A Paris, No. 567, Dated 1849

With rifled reblued octagonal sighted barrel signed in gothic letters along the top flat and engraved with vines against a matted ground around the muzzle and at the breech, case-hardened breech with crowned maker's stamp beneath, tang with blued back-sight, signed detented lock, hammer and mounts all engraved en suite, the latter comprising shaped side-plate, ovoidal pommel with turned baluster terminal, and spur trigger-guard with owner's monogram in an oval, highly figured walnut half-stock carved with foliage in relief within line borders on the fore-end and on each side of the butt, the latter terminating in a winged grotesque on each side, and original dull grey finish on the metal parts: in original ebony veneered case fitted and lined in dark green velvet with full accessories including bullet mould and Hawksley white-metal three-way flask, the inside of the lid with stamped and gilt maker's details, the exterior with brass stringing and shaped white-metal escutcheon engraved with owner's initials
25.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

The firm of Gastinne-Renette was amongst the leading Parisian makers of target and duelling pistols in the 19th century and won medals at the Paris exhibitions of 1834 and 1844, as well as holding appointments to Napoleon III and the King of Spain. Up to the outbreak of the First World War duelling lessons were still available at the firm's premises in the Champs-Elysées, where it is still represented to this day. Walter Winans in his The Art of Revolver Shooting (1911 edition) devotes a chapter to "Gastinne-Renette's Gallery in Paris", and concludes "In regard to galleries where one can get pistol practice, that of Gastinne-Renette in Paris stands easily first, and not only is it lit up in the best style for all sorts of shooting, but the weapons supplied are the best in the world"

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