Shotgun with pin called "Harmonica", jar system, single barr - Lot 219

Lot n° 219
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Result : 5 742EUR
Shotgun with pin called "Harmonica", jar system, single barr - Lot 219
Shotgun with pin called "Harmonica", jar system, single barrel octagonal then round in damascus steel with tobacco-coloured ribbon, bearing a band in the upper part signed in gold letters: "Invno Jarre à Paris", at the end the band forms an openwork projection with a target, length 66 cm, calibre 20; horizontal magazine, Harmonica, for four pinfire cartridges, internal mechanism with double-headed hammer, lower trigger for the horizontal translation movement of the magazine, the whole engraved and numbered: "47"; scroll trigger guard; separate stock and barrel, in veined walnut, grip and end of the barrel squared; total length 113 cm. (Barrel re-coloured; metal parts polished white, engravings reworked). Second-Empire period. Good condition. JARRE filed a patent, in 1862, for France and the United States; the system was exhibited by JARRE and company, in 1867, at the Universal Exhibition of Paris.
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