Necessary cassette of combat pistols signed "LE PAGE". 1st EMPIRE. Octagonal barrels of 22 cm, gauge 12 mm, slightly blundered towards the mouths, stripes hair, bronzing of origin. Marked on the sides "Le Page à Paris" - "Arq er de L'Empereur" in cursive, gold reinforced lights, wide gold fillets on the thunderbolts and the muzzle. Barrels bearing adjustable key front sight and leafy fusegates having kept their original blue. Tailpieces numbered "1" and "2", very finely decorated with plants, flat-body locks engraved with scrolls and foliage signed "LE PAGE A PARIS". Scrolled baskets, lined with silver, engraved drums finished in half scroll, battery springs with their blue. Steel trimmings cut in vases engraved with flowers, palmettes and feathers, counterplates in rosettes with all the heads of screws guilloche. Adjustable triggers and finger rests. Mid-length, checkered stock mounts with black horn gaps (cracked) between stock and cap, finely engraved with foliage. Barrels secured by draw pins, wood marked "1253" at the thunderbolts on the left. Total length of each gun approximately 35 cm. Set presented in a mahogany cassette (43 cm x 27 cm x 7.5 cm) lined with red and green morocco, the oiler compartment is loose, no missing, presence of flints and two lead bullets in one compartment. The top of the box is disassociated from the rest (hinge bodies cut but not torn off), missing corners and wear, key present, functional lock. The case contains, mallet, screwdriver equipped with a light opener, oiler, brass and wood powder pod, bullet mold tongs, brass trimmed blond horn powder flask, loading rod (one rod missing). About 1809. Excellent workmanship. EXC. "LEPAGE" is in the same way as Boutet, harquebusier of the Emperor and the Princes. By family tradition, this cassette would have been acquired by the Maréchal Berthier.