265 - FIREARMS. An exceptional flintlock pistol belonging to an officer of the King’s Bodyguard, signed ST-GERMAIN in Paris, with a walnut stock inlaid with silver fillets, a round barrel with chiseled, gilded flanges decorated with scrollwork, and engraved on the upper flange “St Germain - Paris,” a silver barleycorn pattern framed by damascened foliage, a flat-bodied lock engraved with an ancient warrior wearing a plumed helmet seated on a drum and, on a banner, “St Germain à Paris,” horizontal iron bassinet with faceted sides, silver mountings, thumb guard bearing the presumed coat of arms of the MITOUFLET family: "Azure, a lion Or; a chief Argent, charged with three flies Sable" engraved within an oval medallion surrounded by the collar of the Holy Spirit (or Saint Michael), surmounted by a count’s crown, flanked by two anthropomorphic supporters in natural pose, extending into leafy scrollwork, set within a rich rocaille decoration, against an openwork plate adorned with a medallion bearing the effigy of a helmeted ancient warrior, a long-tailed cap engraved with trophies of arms and musical instruments, the cap depicting a radiant head—a symbol of the King’s military house and the Bodyguards in particular—a trigger guard and stock holders in chased silver, and a wooden stock with a horn pommel. Length: 45 cm, barrel: 27 cm. BE FERIOT ROUGIER, known as Germain or St. Germain, master arquebusier in Paris, juror of the guild (1723, 1735, 1741), died probably in 1751. One known example of his work is a rifle signed “St. Germain à Paris,” dated 1721, which came from the former arms collection at Ettersburg Castle in Germany and later entered the Jakobsson Collection in Stockholm.