FLINTLOCK PISTOL CASSETTE, IN WOOD, COVERED WITH GREEN MOROCCO, DECORATED WITH A FRIEZE OF FOLIAGE AND FOUR PHRYGIAN BONNETS IN THE CORNERS. FOLDING BRASS HANDLE. FOUR-POINT LOCK. WITH KEY. Contains: -a fine pair of officer's flintlock pistols. Blued and decorated in gold with foliage, trophies of arms, garlands and bouquets, silver barley grains on a radiant gold background, hallmarked with thunders. Plates engraved "Bodin à Paris", chased with cornucopia tails with fruit and flat-bodied swan-necked dogs. Oval basins with large spark guards. Adjustable triggers. Cut, engraved and chased steel fittings. Flamed urn trigger guard fronts. Long, plain trigger guard tails. Oval knobs adorned with oval medallions, engraved with roosters, snakes and laurel. Finely selected walnut mounts. Waxed walnut stocks with long shafts partly carved with foliage, reeds, knots, trophies of arms and branches of foliage carved at the bottom. The backs of the stocks are carved with a pearl fillet linking to the base of medallions carved with the number "B", surrounded by foliage and horns of plenty. Chopsticks with horn and brass tips. B.E. in its original 70% blue and gold (minor wear, a small crack on the front of each of the barrels, the interior of the scarlet velvet case is old but later). Length: 37 cm. Barrel diameter: 14 mm. Case: 44 x 17 x Ht 6 cm. Bodin Paris, circa 1795-1798. Provenance : -Family of General Henri Gatien BERTRAND. -Robert Jean CHARLES Collection, Hôtel Drouot (Ader-Tajan), May 13, 1993, 1st sale, no. 53. -Jean Louis Noisiez Collection Historical background: These pistols were presented as having traditionally belonged to General Napoleon Bonaparte, whose number appears at the bottom of the grips.