Flintlock pistol attributed to General Thouvenot, vendémiair - Lot 158

Lot n° 158
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Flintlock pistol attributed to General Thouvenot, vendémiair - Lot 158
Flintlock pistol attributed to General Thouvenot, vendémiaire model an XII, by Le Page arquebusier de S. M. l'Empereur Napoléon 1er: Blued octagonal barrel, slightly misprinted, stamped with Le Page au tonnerre, on a gold background: "L" and "P" on either side of the lictor's beam, in an oval; the upper part is signed in gold letters: "Le Page Arquebusier De S. Mté" and numbered: "n° 171"; gilded fillets at each end; silver scroll and sighting point; length 21.3 cm, calibre 17.5 mm, hair-striped. Flat-bodied lock, signed: "Le Page à Paris"; swan-necked hammer, volute battery, stone-clamp numbered: "171"; it is dated, inside: "1807" and numbered: "916". Iron cut-out trimmings; silver octagonal cap with Medusa head, stamped with the cockerel 1st title of Paris, 1798/1809 and the small guarantee of Paris for the same date. Walnut stock, fine checkering forming rhombuses. Iron ramrod. Total length 35.5 cm. Early First Empire period, 1807. Very good condition. PROVENANCE: this pistol would come from General Pierre THOUVENOT, Baron, bought in pair, May 30, 1983, from Mr. Charles MARCHAL, in Paris. (A copy of the certificate could be given to the purchaser). This pistol has been paired, probably at the time, with the one presented in the following issue. Jean LE PAGE, harquebusier and furrier in Paris, from 1779 to 1822, born in 1746 † in 1834. He was the harquebusier of Louis XVI, the First Consul, then the Emperor and Louis XVIII. He created the fulminate system by patent of April 28, 1810. Unlike his colleague and competitor Nicolas-Noël Boutet, he kept the favours of the new regime under the Restoration. It was established at 950 rue de la Loi in 1798, then later at 494 of the same street which became rue de Richelieu and his workshop took the number 13 which later became number 8. His son Henri, Jean, André, Prospère succeeded him in 1822 and retired in 1842, born in 1792 † in 1854.
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