AN UNUSUAL FRENCH D.B. 20-BORE BREECH-LOADING PERCUSSION CARBINE with twist tip-down barrels signed in gold on the rib and struck in front of each nipple at the breech with barrelsmith's mark of Albert Bernard, border engraved box-lock action engraved with a game bird in a landscape on each side, back-action locks engraved with fruit and foliage, engraved hammers, figured walnut fore-end (chipped) incorporating the barrel-release stud, hinged highly figured walnut folding butt recessed on the right side for the action, and engraved steel mounts including butt-plate and large trigger-guard, signed Le-Faucheux Breveté A Paris, No. 316, second quarter of the 19th Century