AN UNUSUAL FRENCH UNDER-HAMMER BOX-LOCK PERCUSSION COAT PISTOL with octagonal polygroove rifled turn-off barrel inscribed 'Invention Gosset à Paris' in gold, flattened figured rootwood butt cut with fish-scale chequering, finely engraved action, and folding trigger which also acts as safety-catch at half-cock, by Gosset, Paris, circa 1830

AN UNUSUAL FRENCH UNDER-HAMMER BOX-LOCK PERCUSSION COAT PISTOL with octagonal polygroove rifled turn-off barrel inscribed 'Invention Gosset à Paris' in gold, flattened figured rootwood butt cut with fish-scale chequering, finely engraved action, and folding trigger which also acts as safety-catch at half-cock, by Gosset, Paris, circa 1830
7½in.