FRANCE, milieu du XVIIIème siècle VIELLE. Small cavalry or marine flintlock pistol. Signed and engraved lock with nets and foliage, and swan neck hammer, with round bodies. Round barrel, ringed, with beading at the muzzle, and with five sides towards the thunder, of which three are foliated. Tail of breech marked in continuation. With eight stripes. Caliber 12 mm. Walnut barrel carved with a thunder leaf. Trim in brass cut out with decoration of cartridges rocailles, dedicated. Length of the barrel: 15.2 cm - Total length: 28.5 cm. Missing ramrod and support clip. Wear to the decorations; accidents with the trigger guard, to revise cap of pommel (to be put back in place); some shocks with the barrel; hammer blocked.