Secret book with a pair of chest pistols by SALMON in Paris - France - 19th century

Secret book with a pair of chest pistols by SALMON in Paris
France 19th century.
Steel and wood
LT: 10.5cm – L; of the barrel: 2.5cm – Cal. : 9mm

Round barrels, rifled, with rims at the mouth; screwed.
Steel chests engraved with scrolls, signed on the right SALMON and marked on the left A PARIS.
Dogs engraved in suite. Retractable trigger tails, engraved with foliage.
Blackened wooden stocks.

Very good state.

Secret book, 18th century binding and encrypted in gold on the cover.

SALMON , established in Paris between 1850 and 1890, quai de la Mégisserie

Ref. : 4681

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