Пистолет ударный кремневый. Европа. 18 век. фото 32-01
A FINE PAIR OF 60 BORE D.B. FRENCH FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY BRUNON L'AINE, ST ETIENNE, CIRCA 1790
with turn-off cannon barrels formed with roped mouldings, numbered '1' to '4' respectively, blued breeches stamped with the gold-lined barrrelsmith's mark, a lion, inscribed in gold 'Canon Tordu' and decorated with crowned eagles on thunderbolts within a framework incorporating Greek key pattern, border-engraved grooved breech tangs, signed bevelled locks fitted with engraved cocks, figured walnut half-stocks carved with a zig-zag pattern about the tangs, finely chequered butts encircled with a band of beadwork at the bottom, engraved steel mounts comprising broad moulded trigger-guards with neoclassical finials, and octagonal butt-caps decorated with flowers, vacant mother-of-pearl escutcheons, and with no provision for a ramrod
21.2cm; 8 3/8in