FRANCE, seconde moitié du XIXème siècle, pour le marché ottoman P. BOITARD, Manufacturer of Weapons, Breveté in Saint Etienne. Officer's flintlock pistol. Flat body lock, signed "P. BOITARD, Ft d'Armes Bté à St Etienne" with engraved decoration of caning; cover-bassinet decorated in continuation. Round-bodied hound engraved with a trophy of arms on a gilded background [older, reused?]. Round barrel, ringed at the muzzle, then with 5 sides at the thunder, decorated with a star and a crescent radiating under a canopy and rhombuses and interlacing; front sight on radiating background. Numerous scratches. Caliber 12 mm. Cut gilt brass fittings, engraved in succession or with squares and leaves. Black stained wood shaft with filigree and pastille decoration, cross and mother-of-pearl crescent. The rod is made of fanon with a resin nail-head (unsuitable). Barrel length : 34 cm - Total length : 49 cm. Some cracks in the barrel; small accidents, uprisings and losses to the filigree and the pellets; wear to the decoration, some oxidation and small shocks to the barrel. Spring to be revised not holding armed. Paul BOITARD, arms manufacturer in Saint Etienne from 1852 to 1880. It was judge with the commercial court in 1867. It took part in the Universal Exposures of Paris of 1855 and 1867.