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A Fine And Extremely Rare Pair Of Cased Russian 54-Bore Enclosed-Action Breech-Loading Percussion Centre-Fire Rifled Pocket Pistols On The Pauly PrincipleSigned Artari-Colomba A Moscou, Circa 1840
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Signed Artari-Colomba A Moscou, Circa 1840
Signed Artari-Colomba A Moscou, Circa 1840
10 cm. barrels
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Provenance:
By family tradition acquired by the famous Liège gunmaker Auguste Francotte from Prince Anatole Demidoff, Prince de San Donato (1812-1870) of the well-known mining and weapon manufacturing family. He was famous for his extensive travelling and as a patron of the arts
For a full account of Samuel Johannes Pauly, including details of the purchase of a number of his guns on behalf of the Emperor of Russia, see W. Reid, 'Pauly, Gun-Designer', J.A.A.S., Vol. II, No. 9 (March 1958), pp. 181-210. A patent for a gun and cartridge firing a copper cap was taken out in France by Clément Pottet (who had been a workman for Pauly) on 3 March 1829, Patent No. 3930. See Lewis Winant, Early Percussion Firearms, 1959, pp. 41, 93 and 166, pls. 12, 93 and 217








