Lot n° 59
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Luxurious "Franco-Persian" shotgun. - Lot 59
Luxurious "Franco-Persian" shotgun.
Flat-faced flintlock receiver with swan-neck hammer.
Signed Biche à Vezoul in cursive letters and chased with a quadruped animal.
Carved walnut stock decorated with a boar's head.
All silver fittings and crowned imperial eagle trigger guard.
Oriental barrel, with sides then round in damascus steel.
It bears an inscription that appears to be in Farsi, probably Persian.
Good mechanics.
Overall length: 141 cm.
The "who's who" of the weapon in France, gives a Bich père et fils active in Vesoul 1823-1835.
Probably from an earlier work by the same harquebusier.
Imperial eagle bridges are generally found on the arms of present or close relatives of Emperor Napoleon 1st.
This one has the particularity of its oriental barrel, which refers us either to the campaign of
of 1798, a war prize elegantly remounted in France, or the Franco-Persian relations of 1807-1809.
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