A SILVER MOUNTED TRAVEL FLINTLOCK PISTOL WITH TURNOFF BARREL

Turn-off, round two-stage, rifled, 9 mm cal. barrel, with rings at the girdle and nozzle with moulded muzzle. Octagonal breech with threading. Lock with roundish plate, outlined, marked "A Avignon". In working order but the cock is not in position. External ratchet. Briar-root, three quarters stock, chiselled with flowers at the barrel's tang. Beak-shaped butt-plate, chiselled with a bird's head. Silver, outlined trigger-guard and counter-plate.

France, late 18th Century
length 15 cm.
Conditions: good