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Purchased after midnight by the late owner at the Place du Tertre, Montmartre
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A 12-BORE SPANISH MILITARY MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOL
CIRCA 1790
With shortened barrel struck with indistinct maker's mark at the breech, engraved with the Spanish royal arms (rubbed) and 'Regim.to De Caball De Borbon'., all on the top flat, patilla lock with brass pan, walnut full stock (fore-end repaired), brass mounts including later solid side-plate, escutcheon engraved with the Spanish royal arms, and spurred pommel with grotesque mask cap, and iron ramrod (ramrod-pipe repaired, belt hook missing)
13½in.
CIRCA 1790
With shortened barrel struck with indistinct maker's mark at the breech, engraved with the Spanish royal arms (rubbed) and 'Regim.to De Caball De Borbon'., all on the top flat, patilla lock with brass pan, walnut full stock (fore-end repaired), brass mounts including later solid side-plate, escutcheon engraved with the Spanish royal arms, and spurred pommel with grotesque mask cap, and iron ramrod (ramrod-pipe repaired, belt hook missing)
13½in.