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A rare French 20-bore 1770 model Officer of Trooper's flintlock pistol, and a French 12-bore 1822 model percussion military pistol image 1
A rare French 20-bore 1770 model Officer of Trooper's flintlock pistol, and a French 12-bore 1822 model percussion military pistol image 2
Lot 153

A rare French 20-bore 1770 model Officer of Trooper's flintlock pistol, and a French 12-bore 1822 model percussion military pistol
The first dated 1770, the second No. 313, Dated 1836

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £475 inc. premium

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A rare French 20-bore 1770 model Officer of Trooper's flintlock pistol, and a French 12-bore 1822 model percussion military pistol
The first dated 1770, the second No. 313, Dated 1836

The first with plain barrel retained by a spring-held pierced steel barrel band (an old replacement) also forming the ramrod-entry, dated border engraved tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock and ring-neck cock (top jaw and screw replaced), the former engraved 'Manufacture de Charleville' (similar to Neue Støckel 8538), figured stock (butt damaged) indistinctly dated behind the side-plate, engraved steel mounts comprising side-plate, rounded beaked pommel and trigger-guard with moulded finial, and later ramrod (steel parts russet overall); the second of regulation pattern with brass mounts, the half-stock serial numbered over an indistinctly stamped circular arsenal mark behind the side-plate, and original steel ramrod (steel parts russet overall, stock split above the tail of the lock) (2)
12.7 cm. and 20 cm. barrels

Footnotes

For the first see Robert E. Brooker, Armes de Poing Militaires Françaises..., 2006, p.98

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