BY GASTINNE-RENETTE, PARIS, NO. 3399, DATED 1883
细节
A FINE 50-BORE FRENCH BREECH-LOADING PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOL
BY GASTINNE-RENETTE, PARIS, NO. 3399, DATED 1883
WITH RIFLED BLUED OCTAGONAL SIGHTED BARREL WITH FLUTED CENTRAL SECTION SIGNED IN ENCRUSTED GOLD LETTERS, THE ANGLES HEIGHTENED WITH ENCRUSTED GOLD LINES, BLUED TANG INCORPORATING THE BACK-SIGHT AND WITH FURTHER GOLD-ENCRUSTED DECORATION, CASE-HARDENED LOCK EN SUITE, EBONY HALF-STOCK, CHEQUERED BUTT, BLUED AND CASE-HARDENED IRON MOUNTS ALSO WITH GOLD-ENCRUSTED DECORATION, THE TRIGGER-GUARD/BARREL LEVER WITH CHEQUERED SPUR, CHEQUERED TRIGGER, AND IN VERY FINE CONDITION THROUGHOUT: IN ORIGINAL VENEERED FITTED CASE LINED IN BURGUNDY VELVET WITH ACCESSORIES INCLUDING DIXON FLASK, THE LID WITH STAMPED AND GILT SIGNATURE, THE OUTSIDE WITH BRASS STRINGING AND ELABORATELY PIERCED AND ENGRAVED CENTRAL PANEL ENGRAVED WITH OWNER'S INITIALS, COMPLETE WITH LEATHER TRAVELLING COVER
16¼IN. (41.2CM.)
THE FIRM OF GASTINNE-RENETTE WAS PROBABLY THE LEADING PARISIAN MAKER OF TARGET AND DUELLING PISTOLS IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND WON MEDALS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITIONS OF 1839 AND 1844, AS WELL AS HOLDING APPOINTMENTS TO NAPOLEON III AND THE KING OF SPAIN. UP TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR DUELLING LESSONS WERE STILL AVAILABLE AT THE FIRM'S PREMISES IN THE CHAMPS-ELYSéES, WHERE IT IS STILL REPRESENTED TO THIS DAY. IN THE ART OF REVOLVER SHOOTING (1911 EDITION), CHAMPION SHOT WALTER WINANS DEVOTES A CHAPTER TO "GASTINNE-RENETTE'S GALLERY IN PARIS", AND CONCLUDES "IN REGARD TO GALLERIES WHERE ONE CAN GET PISTOL PRACTICE, THAT OF GASTINNE-RENETTE IN PARIS STANDS EASILY FIRST, AND NOT ONLY IS IT LIT UP IN THE BEST STYLE FOR ALL SORTS OF SHOOTING, BUT THE WEAPONS SUPPLIED ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD"
BY GASTINNE-RENETTE, PARIS, NO. 3399, DATED 1883
WITH RIFLED BLUED OCTAGONAL SIGHTED BARREL WITH FLUTED CENTRAL SECTION SIGNED IN ENCRUSTED GOLD LETTERS, THE ANGLES HEIGHTENED WITH ENCRUSTED GOLD LINES, BLUED TANG INCORPORATING THE BACK-SIGHT AND WITH FURTHER GOLD-ENCRUSTED DECORATION, CASE-HARDENED LOCK EN SUITE, EBONY HALF-STOCK, CHEQUERED BUTT, BLUED AND CASE-HARDENED IRON MOUNTS ALSO WITH GOLD-ENCRUSTED DECORATION, THE TRIGGER-GUARD/BARREL LEVER WITH CHEQUERED SPUR, CHEQUERED TRIGGER, AND IN VERY FINE CONDITION THROUGHOUT: IN ORIGINAL VENEERED FITTED CASE LINED IN BURGUNDY VELVET WITH ACCESSORIES INCLUDING DIXON FLASK, THE LID WITH STAMPED AND GILT SIGNATURE, THE OUTSIDE WITH BRASS STRINGING AND ELABORATELY PIERCED AND ENGRAVED CENTRAL PANEL ENGRAVED WITH OWNER'S INITIALS, COMPLETE WITH LEATHER TRAVELLING COVER
16¼IN. (41.2CM.)
THE FIRM OF GASTINNE-RENETTE WAS PROBABLY THE LEADING PARISIAN MAKER OF TARGET AND DUELLING PISTOLS IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND WON MEDALS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITIONS OF 1839 AND 1844, AS WELL AS HOLDING APPOINTMENTS TO NAPOLEON III AND THE KING OF SPAIN. UP TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR DUELLING LESSONS WERE STILL AVAILABLE AT THE FIRM'S PREMISES IN THE CHAMPS-ELYSéES, WHERE IT IS STILL REPRESENTED TO THIS DAY. IN THE ART OF REVOLVER SHOOTING (1911 EDITION), CHAMPION SHOT WALTER WINANS DEVOTES A CHAPTER TO "GASTINNE-RENETTE'S GALLERY IN PARIS", AND CONCLUDES "IN REGARD TO GALLERIES WHERE ONE CAN GET PISTOL PRACTICE, THAT OF GASTINNE-RENETTE IN PARIS STANDS EASILY FIRST, AND NOT ONLY IS IT LIT UP IN THE BEST STYLE FOR ALL SORTS OF SHOOTING, BUT THE WEAPONS SUPPLIED ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD"