Flintlock musket of honor of the year IX type, lock signed: "MANUFRE DE VERSAILLES"; silver-plated brass fittings (very thick silvering); walnut stock bearing a silver escutcheon, maintained by twelve nails, marked: "The 1st Consul BONAPARTE to the Citizen MENGUELCHOTTE In reward of his devotion to the Fatherland In the name of the French People", the border is decorated with two branches of olive tree; iron ramrod. (Composite piece of style, mounted with old and period pieces).
Period partly Consulate, First-Empire. Good condition.
MENGUELCHOTTE is not listed in the Fastes de la Légion d'honneur.
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