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Lot n° 36

REVOLVER

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CARIBINE REVOLVER, pinfire Lefaucheux system, six shot, 12 gauge. Engraved and marked "Caron arquebusier de SM l'Empereur" on blackened background. Round barrel with adjustable rise. Barrel, carcass struck "LF 639". Finger rests engraved, chased in continuation on blackened bottom with decoration of flowers and foliage. Stock in drowning with system of assembly for a stick (not present). Iron ramrod. Length. 53cm Fairly good condition circa 1860/70 Biography F.P? Caron arquebusier in Paris between 1851 and 1874 was arquebusier of the Emperor Napoleon III (1839/52). He officiated passage of the Opera