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Lot 157

A Fine Pair Of French 40-Bore Rifled Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistols
By Cassaignard A Nantes, Charge And Descharge Marks For Lyon 1775-1781, Under Excise OF Jean Baptiste Fouache And Dominique Compant

30 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

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A Fine Pair Of French 40-Bore Rifled Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistols
By Cassaignard A Nantes, Charge And Descharge Marks For Lyon 1775-1781, Under Excise OF Jean Baptiste Fouache And Dominique Compant

With blued turn-off barrels each rifled with twelve grooves, turned at the girdle and with moulded silver ring around the muzzle, border engraved octagonal breeches becoming polygonal and each signed along the top flat, blued border engraved tangs, signed rounded locks (light surface rust) each engraved with a martial trophy on the tail, pans each with a water-drain, moulded figured half-stocks carved with foliage in relief on each fore-end and behind each barrel tang, mounts cast and chased in low relief against finely punched grounds and comprising shaped foliate side-plates, spurred pommels with a Classical trophy on each side, caps each with a differing portrait bust of a Turk, vacant foliate escutcheons, foliate trigger-guards, and no provision for ramrods, and retaining much of their original blueing (2)
10.2 cm. barrels

Footnotes

For more information regarding this maker see Jean-Jacques Buigné and Pierre Jarlier, Le "Qui est qui" de l'arme en France de 1350 à 1970, 2001, vol.I, p.91

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