A fine pistol from Le Page, pricey too.

[Colonial Boy]

First, from the vendor’s description,
”The swamped, sighted, .60 calibre, octagonal barrel has micro groove rifling and is deeply chiselled with interlaced vines and ‘LA PAGE A PARIS’ on the top flat. The gilded barrel tang has similar decoration.
The lock and all its components are chiselled or engraved with differing amounts of foliate designs. This includes the frizzen, frizzen spring, top jaw and its screw and the underside of the flash pan. See photos. The centre of the lock-plate is engraved ‘Le Page / A Paris’.
The action is in excellent working order and has probably never been fired.
In keeping with the overall excellent workmanship of this pistol the trigger guard with its long final, the nose cap and the butt cap are elaborately detailed with gilding on all. The butt cap also has the gilt monogram of ‘FJL’ for Francois Joseph Lefévre. The rim of the butt is also engraved ‘Francois Joseph Lefebvre 1817 Marechal de L’Empire’.
The full-length walnut stock is in excellent condition with only some very minor handling marks. The horn tipped rammer is original to the pistol. Note, there is a small crack on one side of the rammer tip. See photos”

And it can be yours or mine for just $50,000 Aussie dollars.

 

[Caleb Foster]

Pocket change! that’s a beauty

 

[Rifleman1776]

Presentation grade for sure.

 

[Sam squanch]

That’s where Marlin got the idea!

 

[Relic shooter]

First, from the vendor’s description,
”The swamped, sighted, .60 calibre, octagonal barrel has micro groove rifling and is deeply chiselled with interlaced vines and ‘LA PAGE A PARIS’ on the top flat. The gilded barrel tang has similar decoration.
The lock and all its components are chiselled or engraved with differing amounts of foliate designs. This includes the frizzen, frizzen spring, top jaw and its screw and the underside of the flash pan. See photos. The centre of the lock-plate is engraved ‘Le Page / A Paris’.
The action is in excellent working order and has probably never been fired.
In keeping with the overall excellent workmanship of this pistol the trigger guard with its long final, the nose cap and the butt cap are elaborately detailed with gilding on all. The butt cap also has the gilt monogram of ‘FJL’ for Francois Joseph Lefévre. The rim of the butt is also engraved ‘Francois Joseph Lefebvre 1817 Marechal de L’Empire’.
The full-length walnut stock is in excellent condition with only some very minor handling marks. The horn tipped rammer is original to the pistol. Note, there is a small crack on one side of the rammer tip. See photos”

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And it can be yours or mine for just $50,000 Aussie dollars.

The French produced some beautifully crafted firearms.
The unique design on the frizzen spring is similar to the mainspring on an original French percussion pistol I have & shoot.
Mine is very plain in comparison to the LaPage.
Relic shooter

 

[Colonial Boy]

The French produced some beautifully crafted firearms.
The unique design on the frizzen spring is similar to the mainspring on an original French percussion pistol I have & shoot.
Mine is very plain in comparison to the LaPage.
Relic shooter

But not in design, that mainspring is brilliant, both in concept and execution; the desirable even pressure on the lockplate bedding. via the single screw is achieved by the design of the spring.
He could easily have put the lock plate screw off centre and saved some extra work, work that would be seldom seen.
Can we have a picture of your pistol?
I, for one, would love to see it.

 

[Relic shooter]

But not in design, that mainspring is brilliant, both in concept and execution; the desirable even pressure on the lockplate bedding. via the single screw is achieved by the design of the spring.
He could easily have put the lock plate screw off centre and saved some extra work, work that would be seldom seen.
Can we have a picture of your pistol?
I, for one, would love to see it.

 

[andy52]

If it sells it will never be less that which the high bidder pays, as long as our economy doesn't collapse, you can't buy the age of something nor re-create it.

 

[Relic shooter]

I agree, seems some of the old masters seemed to enjoy showing off their metalworking talents !
Over the past 60=years I've enjoyed shooting mostly vintage English & European firearms because if cared for
they provided superb accuracy & seldom broke down due to their skills in metallurgy & fine fitting.

The .54 cal. rifled French perc. pistol with the unique spapped mainspring is by Cessier A Rouen, I don't have any background on this maker.
It's fairly plain & was #1 of a set of traveling or dueling pistols.
It's burled walnut stock has gotten so dark with age that the figure only shows in good light. It's excellent rifled barrel with 8 lands & grooves are still capable of producing nice groups.

Barrel on the lower .70 cal. French Officers perc. pistol is signed L Hermite ARQer Bte A Saumur.
This pistol's bore is still in near mint condition with fast twist poly-groove rifling similar to the flint LaPage you posted. I believe this pistol was made in this caliber so it would accept the same dia. round balls the French military were using during that era..
Don't know much about this pistol's maker but there was an Admiral Hermite during this era, maybe a relation ?
Relic shooter

I've been caretaker of this .70 cal. perc. Danish Jaeger for about 50 yrs.. This rifle was made by I.C. Haugaard in Kiobehavn.
This rifle won't win any artistic contests but it's accuracy was best of any rifle I've ever owned, it brought down lots of big game & won many competitions matches out to 150 yds.
I contacted the Curator of the National Arms Museum in Copenhagen a few years ago to get more information on the maker & was told I.C. Haugaard was an arms maker to the crown.
Seems unfair that our firearms age much better than we do, it's been retired to the gun safe over the past 10 years.

 

[TDM]

Amazing pistol @Colonial Boy! Thanks for showing.