One Of The Finest Quality Museum Grade French Napoleonic Flintlock Pistols One Will Ever See Outside Of The World Renowned Musee De l’armee Les Invalides Paris

A singularly fabulous Napoleonic wars period French presentation pistol of the highest possible grade, made during the French Consular and First Empire period, a flintlock worthy of Napoleon himself.

Made by highly respected French gunsmith a pistol overflowing with solid silver mounts and scrolling engraving of silver inlaid within the stock and chisel with pure gold highlights throughout all of the mounts and the barrel, including the lock, chiselled with trophies of arms against a ring matted gold ground, gold lined rainproof pan, swamped barrel. In near mint condition

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Leading world museums have numerous examples of pistols of this grade and quality presented by Napoleon to his generals, Marshalls and his brothers, Joseph (King of Naples and Spain), Lucien , Louis (King of Holland), and Jérôme (King of Westphalia), and including Ottoman Empire potentates.

It would likely be impossible to find a more glorious and fabulous quality pistol to improve upon this one in any of the greatest gun collections of the world. A pistol that would be at home in the British Royal Collection, the Metropolitan Museum, or the Louvre in Paris

Napoleon was framed for presenting the finest French quality pistols and sporting guns to his favourite Marshalls and Generals of France of his army.

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