Flintlock shotgun, double barrel table top, blued, gold dama - Lot 170

Lot n° 170.B
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1800 - 2200 EUR
Flintlock shotgun, double barrel table top, blued, gold dama - Lot 170
Flintlock shotgun, double barrel table top, blued, gold damascene with thunderbolts, decorated with trophies, probably punched by Leclerc, band signed in gold letters: "POCHARD. BREVETE. DU. ROY A PARIS", silver bull's-eye surrounded by gold foliate scrolls, 14.5 mm caliber; round-bodied locks, engraved with filets, signed: "POCHARD BREVETE AER OR DU ROY PARIS", swan-necked hammers; blued and gold damascened breech tail; iron fittings, cut and engraved with fillets, the front of the trigger guard represents a flaming urn; walnut stock with cushion; iron-tipped dewlap ramrod; length 129 cm. (Cushion in bad condition, important lack to the leather, visible hairs). Louis XVI period. Good condition. POCHARD Claude or Jean-Claude, ordinary harquebusier of the King in Paris; he was one of the manufacturers of the rifles of the royal hunts used by the King, some of these rifles were reused by the Emperor Napoleon I; rue de Grenelle and rue Saint-Honoré in 1796.
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