Description
Rare four-barrel flintlock shotgun, converted to percussion, signed Bouillet in Paris. The four barrels are juxtaposed two by two and are with two sides with the thunders then round; remainders of bluing; punched, on the barrels of the top, on gold funds; the higher band is signed in gold letters: "BOUILLET À PARIS"; gauge 14 mm, length 72,5 cm for the two barrels of the top. Four small converted flintlock percussion caps, two per side, one above the other, slightly offset. Iron fittings. Veined walnut stock with short barrel, slightly extended at the end of the buttplate by 3 cm. The ramrod is retracted in the center of the four barrels and a lateral slider allows to release it. Total length 115 cm. (One trigger tail broken; the end of one barrel deformed). Late 18th, early 19th century, modified around 1840. Good condition. BOUILLET, famous and great family of harquebusiers in Saint-Étienne, from the end of the XVIIth; it could be Nicolas-Jampsin, harquebusier in Saint-Étienne, then in Paris, born on May 3, 1744 in Saint-Étienne, † in Paris in 1800. Another BOUILLET was harquebusier in Paris around 1830, probably a member of the family, it is perhaps him which gave the rifle out of wooden, at the time of its transformation with percussion.
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Rare four-barrel flintlock shotgun, converted to percussion, signed Bouillet in Paris. The four barrels are juxtaposed two by two and are with two sides with the thunders then round; remainders of bluing; punched, on the barrels of the top, on gold funds; the higher band is signed in gold letters: "BOUILLET À PARIS"; gauge 14 mm, length 72,5 cm for the two barrels of the top. Four small converted flintlock percussion caps, two per side, one above the other, slightly offset. Iron fittings. Veined walnut stock with short barrel, slightly extended at the end of the buttplate by 3 cm. The ramrod is retracted in the center of the four barrels and a lateral slider allows to release it. Total length 115 cm. (One trigger tail broken; the end of one barrel deformed). Late 18th, early 19th century, modified around 1840. Good condition. BOUILLET, famous and great family of harquebusiers in Saint-Étienne, from the end of the XVIIth; it could be Nicolas-Jampsin, harquebusier in Saint-Étienne, then in Paris, born on May 3, 1744 in Saint-Étienne, † in Paris in 1800. Another BOUILLET was harquebusier in Paris around 1830, probably a member of the family, it is perhaps him which gave the rifle out of wooden, at the time of its transformation with percussion.
