Lot 145
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A RARE FRENCH BREECH-LOADING PERCUSSION PISTOL FOR CENTRE-FIRE CARTRIDGES with octagonal sighted rifled barrel pivoting to the left for loading and engraved 'Inv.on Perin Le Page Bté A Paris', the underside of the breech numbered 2 and struck with maker's mark of Nicolas Noël Boutet (Neue Støckel 100), engraved case-hardened action and shaped fore-end, the former with grooved back-sight and long engraved tang, the latter incorporating the spring-loaded barrel-release button, foliate engraved case-hardened hammer, spur trigger-guard and oval butt-trap with hinged cover, highly figured chequered walnut butt, rounded ebony butt-plate, and some original finish, by Louis Perrin-Le Page à Paris, circa 1832

Details
A RARE FRENCH BREECH-LOADING PERCUSSION PISTOL FOR CENTRE-FIRE CARTRIDGES with octagonal sighted rifled barrel pivoting to the left for loading and engraved 'Inv.on Perin Le Page Bté A Paris', the underside of the breech numbered 2 and struck with maker's mark of Nicolas Noël Boutet (Neue Støckel 100), engraved case-hardened action and shaped fore-end, the former with grooved back-sight and long engraved tang, the latter incorporating the spring-loaded barrel-release button, foliate engraved case-hardened hammer, spur trigger-guard and oval butt-trap with hinged cover, highly figured chequered walnut butt, rounded ebony butt-plate, and some original finish, by Louis Perrin-Le Page à Paris, circa 1832
14¼in.
Literature
Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, 1968, p. 119, pls. 457, 458

Lot Essay

Louis Perrin-Le Page exhibited at the Paris Industrial Exhibition of 1823 and is recorded working in Paris from 1830. He married Henry Le Page's daughter and together with his brother-in-law was granted a patent for breech-loading pistols in 1832

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