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A Pair of 22 Bore French Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistols By C. Gagniere A St Etienne, Lyon
A Pair of 22 Bore French Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistols By C. Gagniere A St Etienne, Lyon
£5,450.00
Product Code
FP646
In stock
A pair of 22 bore French silver-mounted flintlock pistols by C. Gagniere A St Etienne, Lyon, charge mark for circa 1775-80, with two-stage browned swamped barrels fitted with silver fore-sights on a gilt sunburst, decorated with gilt bands at the muzzles, trophies and foliage at the medians, inscribed Canon Tordu within linear frames and with further gilt foliage at the breeches, border-engraved tangs, signed border-engraved rounded locks (one steel spring, top-jaw and screw replaced), figured walnut full stocks carved with linear moulding over the fore-end, about the mounts and with a spray of rococo foliage behind the tangs, full silver mounts comprising solid border-engraved side-plates, spurred pommels cast and chased with a Turk bust against a punched ground, vacant escutcheons enclosed by a rococo garland, engraved trigger-guards, and a pair of ramrod-pipes (later ramrods), 31.8cm (2)
**Clément Gagniere is recorded as arquebusier in St Etienne circa 1757-88.**
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| Weight (kg) | 1.383 |
|---|---|
| Mechanism | Flintlock |
| License Type | No Licence Required |
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