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17th century French flintlockpistols by S.Charlet a Lyon

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hawkeye1755

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scalper said:
Undertaker
whars the good gun pics ya normally post???

For you, scalper. :wink:
A very nice pair of 17th century French flintlockpistols by S.Charlet a Lyon.
The burr walnut stock is fine carved. The iron parts are very nice chiselled.
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I wish the people that display those fine guns wouldn't leave the lock in full cock, you know what that does to a main spring.

Many Klatch
 
Undertaker...those are Beautiful...send them to my cabin...I will be waiting!
and thanks for getting back to your Old self... :bow:
 
Many Klatch said:
I wish the people that display those fine guns wouldn't leave the lock in full cock, you know what that does to a main spring.

Many Klatch

They look to be in the fired position to me. :hmm:

.... ahhh as the pictures continued to load I saw the full cocked photos. Since the others are in the release postition could it be possible they were only cocked for those photos to show the engraving and travel?
 
Nice pistols! I rarely go into the pistol forum as it seems to contain threads mostly about the cap and ball guns. Glad I did not miss these fine pieces!
 
Beautiful pieces, and, Undertaker, you are absolutely correct. What a fine looking fowler barrel that design would make! Thanks for sharing. :hatsoff:
 
Very nice pistols
How is it that the French made such nice looking muzzle loading guns yet make the MAS guns used by their military :barf:
Lehigh...
 
Well there were a lot of French nobles under Louis XIV who were involved in all the wars that Louis started against the Dutch, the Habsburgs, etc. Some of those nobles had immense wealth and could afford those pistols - wish I were in their shoes. Napoleon is too late for 17th century pistols, unless he collected them as treasures. His era was 1795, when he saved the Directory, until 1815, when he lost at Waterloo and was exiled for the 2nd time - to St. Helena, where he died in 1821.
 

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