Pair of officer's pistols model 1833 1st type, 225 mm octagonal barrel, hair rifled and slightly blunderbussed, rear sight and front sight, flat-body lock signed Manufacture Royale de Châtellerault and hallmarked L (LHOIST Jean-François, comptroller in Châtellerault from 1832 to 1848), flat-body hammer, trigger guard with engraved fingering, checkered walnut stock, one ramrod missing, one stock split, one pommel slightly missing, traces of use, oxidation, LT 365 mm, Monarchie de Juillet period, category D § e.

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