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A Cased Pair Of French 32-Bore Flintlock Duelling Or Target PistolsBy Brunon le Jeune, Arquebusier A Caen, Late 18th Century
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge£8,000 - £10,000
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A Cased Pair Of French 32-Bore Flintlock Duelling Or Target Pistols
By Brunon le Jeune, Arquebusier A Caen, Late 18th Century
By Brunon le Jeune, Arquebusier A Caen, Late 18th Century
With rebrowned swamped octagonal polygroove rifled barrels each inlaid with gold bands at the muzzle and at the breech, the top flat grooved for sighting and flanked by the maker's signature, blued fore- and back-sights, platinum-lined touch-holes, bright grooved tangs each decorated with foliage, bright flat signed border engraved locks decorated with a swan and a duck respectively, platinum-lined pans, cocks each engraved with a winged serpent, steels each decorated with foliage, rollers, figured half-stocks each carved with neo-classical foliage around the barrel tang, chequered rounded butts each with ovoidal pommel carved with a laurel wreath, bright steel mounts comprising engraved side-nail plates, foliate engraved ovoidal butt-caps, trigger-guards each decorated with a parrot perched on a branch in an oval on the bow, trigger-plates each with urn finial surmounted by an arrangement of fruits and flowers, adjustable set triggers, and no provision for ramrods: in their lined and fitted case with accessories including brass-mounted lanthorn powder-flask, the threaded basal cap engraved 'Gosset Breveté'
23.8 cm. barrels
23.8 cm. barrels




