Description
Pair of flintlock pistols with two barrels, signed "FATOU", of vénerie or of Officer. Side-by-side 24.5 cm barrels, 12 mm caliber, round with flat spot at the thunder and then round to the muzzle, stamped "JR" under crown inscribed on each barrel near the thunder. The juxtaposed double barrels are engraved on the top "Fatou à Paris" - "Rue Du Bacq" in cursive letters. Round-bodied locks, engraved "FATOU à Paris" on the left side and "RUE DU Bacq" on the right side, swan-neck hammer (one hammer missing on one of the guns) with slight differences as well as stone screws and hammer fixing screws, one defective trigger return spring, scroll basins. Cut steel fittings of the type of the General Officers. Mounts with long barrels with finely squared grips, metal cap, barrels fixed by pins with drawers, rods in whalebone. Very well made. 1804-1820. Total length about 38,5 cm. FATOU", harquebusier of the Emperor and the Princes in Paris from 1780 to 1820.
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Pair of flintlock pistols with two barrels, signed "FATOU", of vénerie or of Officer. Side-by-side 24.5 cm barrels, 12 mm caliber, round with flat spot at the thunder and then round to the muzzle, stamped "JR" under crown inscribed on each barrel near the thunder. The juxtaposed double barrels are engraved on the top "Fatou à Paris" - "Rue Du Bacq" in cursive letters. Round-bodied locks, engraved "FATOU à Paris" on the left side and "RUE DU Bacq" on the right side, swan-neck hammer (one hammer missing on one of the guns) with slight differences as well as stone screws and hammer fixing screws, one defective trigger return spring, scroll basins. Cut steel fittings of the type of the General Officers. Mounts with long barrels with finely squared grips, metal cap, barrels fixed by pins with drawers, rods in whalebone. Very well made. 1804-1820. Total length about 38,5 cm. FATOU", harquebusier of the Emperor and the Princes in Paris from 1780 to 1820.
