Description
Officer's flintlock pistol with sea dog head. Round, beaded muzzle, top and thunderbolt barrels, signed "Dombret". Lock signed "Four à Tulle" and round-bodied swan-neck hammer. Round oval basin. Cut-out iron fittings. Iron ramrod. Walnut stock carved with a dogfish head. A.B.E. circa 1790. Length 21 cm. Caliber 12 mm. Four : arquebusier, manufactures marine officer type pistols with sea dog heads circa 1780. Dombret Nicolas: Gunmaker appointed 3rd reviser for guns at the Manufacture de Tulle from 1780 to 1792.
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Officer's flintlock pistol with sea dog head.
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