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A VERY RARE FRENCH FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS
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A VERY RARE FRENCH FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS

BY BOUTET, DIRECTEUR ARTISTE, MANUFACTURE A VERSAILLES, CIRCA 1800-10

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A VERY RARE FRENCH FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS
BY BOUTET, DIRECTEUR ARTISTE, MANUFACTURE A VERSAILLES, CIRCA 1800-10
With two-stage iron barrel with flared muzzle, signed octagonal to polygonal breech-section with a panel of gilt engraved decoration and struck with four maker's marks (obscured), iron tang engraved with border-lines, a laurel wreath enclosing a quiver of arrows, and an arrow, border engraved signed flat bevelled lock with dog-catch and raised priming-pan, figured walnut full stock with chequered panels at the wrist, engraved iron mounts, and original iron-capped horn-tipped ramrod (iron parts discoloured and with light surface corrosion marking throughout, some wear to engraving, stock cracked at wrist, chipped on fore-end, and requiring refinishing, top-jaw missing, jaw-screw incomplete)
15 5/8in. (39.7cm.) barrel
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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A very similar blunderbuss is noted and illustrated in Capt. Maurice Bottet, La Manufacture D'Armes de Versailles, An. II - 1818, Boutet, Directeur-Artiste, Paris, 1903, p. 57, pl. XXXIX. Bottet notes that the blunderbuss illustrated is very similar to those issued to Réglementaire des Mameluks de la Garde Impériale.