MINIATURE CHEST GUN

France, 19th century

Steel and bone

Total length: 4.5 cm

(accidents)

Tiny travel pistol with sided then round barrel chest in the unscrewable style called forced bullet, decorated with an incised decoration of foliage friezes and cupules. Bone stock with net decoration and carcass engraved with two ducks in flight.

Functional mechanism.

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