Flintlock double-barrel table-top shotgun, thunder-punched, 16 mm caliber; flat-barrel locks engraved and signed: "Pitiote à St-Étienne"; fine punched silver fittings, chased with hunting scenes; carved, cheeked burr-walnut stock, squared grip ending in a boar's head, small gold thumbpiece; length 125.5 cm. (Barrel has lost its bluing; ramrod missing).
Restoration period, circa 1820. Very good condition.
POINÇONS: 1er titre des départements, tête d'homme dans un hexagone, 1819; de garantie, 1819; goldsmith: "C. C.", in a horizontal rhombus.
PITHIOT or PITIOTE, harquebusier in Saint-Étienne, an XIII/1836.
Category D - free sale to over 18s.
This lot is presented by Mr Bernard CROISSY, militaria expert.
06 07 64 29 15 - bernard.croissy@wanadoo.fr
Estim. 1,500 - 2,000 EUR