Flintlock trombone from the Manufacture de Versailles, barre - Lot 201

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5000 - 7000 EUR
Flintlock trombone from the Manufacture de Versailles, barre - Lot 201
Flintlock trombone from the Manufacture de Versailles, barrel blued, very flared, octagonal then with sixteen sides separated by an engraved decoration, gilded, at the start of the round part, gold damascened at the thunder and at the muzzle, hallmarked: "C B", "N B" and "D C", signed on the upper side: "Boutet Directeur Artiste"; flat-bodied lock, adorned with a small decoration at the rear and signed: "MANUFRE À VERSAILLES", swan-necked hammer fitted with a hook safety; cut iron fittings, polished white, counterplate with two engraved rosettes, all screws guilloche; handsome veined walnut stock, cheekpiece carved with a rosette, checkered grip and barrel, end of barrel nicely carved with a drapery; wooden ramrod with ebony or black horn tip and finished with an iron pellet; length 87 cm. (Bleui of the barrel taken again, as well as the signature on the higher side; stronger hammer, changed formerly, probably at the beginning of the XIXe, the brittleness of the hammers of Boutet was a handicap for these weapons, the collars of swan, too fine, often broke) Directoire, Consulate period. Good condition. BOUTET Nicolas Noël, born in 1761 † in 1833, famous director of the manufacture of Versailles, from the year II to 1818; he worked mainly on the weapons of reward, the weapons of honor and the weapons of luxury, as well white as with fire; those reached a world fame, by their quality of execution and the originality of their models. He had in Paris a deposit of manufacture, 1236 street of the Law (street of Richelieu) in year XI, then, 87 street of Richelieu in 1807; one finds it, as private harquebusier, in 1823, 23 street of the Daughters Saint-Thomas, where he exerted until 1831. He had a son, Pierre Nicolas, born in 1786 † in 1816, which explains sometimes the inscription: "BOUTET and son"
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