FRANCE, début du XVIIIème siècle, Jean FORMENTIN LE JEUNE Pair of flintlock pommel pistols. Signed locks, underlined with nets and engraved with foliage and foliage bases, and with hammers with swan necks, with round bodies. Barrels smooth, round, then with sides, towards the thunder, one broader curved. Caliber: 16 mm. Trace of an inscription on the left side of a barrel, hidden by the barrel. Cut brass fittings, such as openwork counterplates in the shape of chimeras, bridges decorated with a fleur-de-lys, pommels with braces decorated with a grinning head and openwork cartouche thumb pieces. Long shafts and stocks in selected walnut decorated with a chimera, pommels with splints, decorated with a mascaron. Thumb pieces decorated with a medallion surrounded by palmettes. Wooden sticks tinted, reported. Barrel length: 36.5 cm - Total length: 53.5 or 54 cm. A spring not holding armed. Shocks, in particular with the mouth of a barrel and oxidations, cleaned; the two barrels broken and stuck again under the barrels, some splinters. A dynasty of harquebusiers named FORMENTIN was active in Abbeville, in the Somme, between 1680 and 1780. A Jean FORMENTIN is said to be active between 1680 and the beginning of the XVIIIth century.