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Lot 154
A French 12-bore 1777 model varient 1783 Type flintlock Officer's pistolLate 18th century
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £937.50 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA French 12-bore 1777 model varient 1783 Type flintlock Officer's pistol
Late 18th century
Late 18th century
With plain tapering barrel indistinctly marked and numbered '83' at the breech, short tang, and extension down the back of the butt, brass action engraved 'St. Etienne' beneath the ring-neck cock (top jaw and screw replaced) and stamped with a crowned 'L' beneath the pan, rounded butt stamped with indistinct marks on one side and 'V3' on the other, regulation brass mounts, side-mounted steel ramrod, and steel belt hook (some wear overall, steel parts lightly pitted)
19 cm. barrel
19 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For another example see Robert E. Brooker, Armes de Poing Militaires Françaises..., 2006, p.107








