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BY GASTINNE RENETTE, ARQ.ER DE L'EMPEREUR PARIS, NO. 833, DATED 1853
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An Unusual Cased 100-Bore French D.B. Single-Trigger Saw-Handled Percussion Pistol
By Gastinne Renette, Arq.er De L'Empereur Paris, No. 833, dated 1853
With browned octagonal sighted barrels polygroove rifled, signed in full on the breech, and stamped with serial number and date on the underside, case-hardened patent breeches engraved with scrolls, flowers and foliage, tang, locks and mounts en suite, the first incorporating the back-sight, folding trigger (incomplete), half-stock (cracked) carved with foliage above the chequered grip, oval pommel incorporating the ramrod, and some original finish: in original fitted case lined in burgundy velvet, with accessories including Dixon three-way flask, the lid with stamped and gilt signature, the outside with brass stringing and shaped escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram 'LA', a coronet above
6in. (15.9cm.)
By Gastinne Renette, Arq.er De L'Empereur Paris, No. 833, dated 1853
With browned octagonal sighted barrels polygroove rifled, signed in full on the breech, and stamped with serial number and date on the underside, case-hardened patent breeches engraved with scrolls, flowers and foliage, tang, locks and mounts en suite, the first incorporating the back-sight, folding trigger (incomplete), half-stock (cracked) carved with foliage above the chequered grip, oval pommel incorporating the ramrod, and some original finish: in original fitted case lined in burgundy velvet, with accessories including Dixon three-way flask, the lid with stamped and gilt signature, the outside with brass stringing and shaped escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram 'LA', a coronet above
6in. (15.9cm.)