Original French Double Barrel Turnover Percussion Pistol with Carved Wood Stock - Possibly Converted from Flintlock Martini-Henry Rifles prior to 1916

prior to 1916

SS - PACKUNG and is filled with a Vaseline type ointment

The weight and feel are true to the US WW2 issue Thompson M1A1

The blade ricasso is marked with RIA for the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois

The Tabatiere breech loading system was first designed in 1857

Original French Double Barrel Turnover Percussion Pistol with Carved Wood Stock - Possibly Converted from Flintlock Martini-Henry Rifles prior to 1916Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very interesting French "turnover" percussion pistol, with aspects of the 17th and 18th century style. It may have originally been much longer, but now the barrels are 9 1 2" in length. We also feel that originally it was almost certainly a flintlock example, but was converted to percussion in the 19th century, as countless flintlocks were. It has an iron butt Cap surrounded by Ivory studs and the wood