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A Rare French Flintlock Hand-Mortar
By Pierre Girard, St. Etienne, Circa 1745

Fine Antique Arms and Armour Including items from the Per T. Norheim Collection
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare French Flintlock Hand-Mortar
By Pierre Girard, St. Etienne, Circa 1745

With heavy multi-staged brass barrel with raised mouldings and central swelling, and with an applied rectangular brass plate at the touch-hole, short border engraved integral brass tang, flat border engraved bright bevelled lock (cock missing) signed in script and decorated with a trophy of arms on the tail, moulded figured full stock contoured to the barrel on the fore-end, carved with foliage in low relief behind the barrel tang and stamped with Museum of Artillery mark on the right side, border engraved brass mounts comprising flat bevelled side-plate decorated with foliage and a trophy of arms, butt-plate decorated en suite along the heel tang, and trigger-guard with shaped pointed finial and a rocaille and foliage on the bow
19 cm. barrel, 58 cm. overall

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Museum of Artillery, Rotunda, Woolwich, no. MA1521

Literature:
Official Catalogue Of The Museum of Artillery In Rotunda, Woolwich, H.M.S.O., London, 1874, p. 113, no.3
J.P. Kaestlin, Catalogue of the Museum of Artillery in the Rotunda at Woolwich, Part II, Personal Arms, H.M.S.O., London, 1963, p. 39, no. 3

Pierre Girard (1674-1751), father and son of gunmakers of the same name, took charge of his father's business in St. Etienne in 1694. In 1716 he was appointed gundealer and entrepeneur to the King, and in 1717 gunmaker to Philippe D'Orleans, Regent of France. In 1718 he became representative of the Compagnie des Indes in St. Etienne, and around 1740 Equerry, Counsellor and Secretary to the King in Lyon. He established a proof house in St. Etienne, and was elevated to the title 'Seigneur de Roche-la-Molière in 1746

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
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THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
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