FRANCE, seconde moitié du XVIIIème siècle Pair of Marine officer's pistols. Brass flintlock locks, unsigned, with iron swan-neck hammer. Bronze two-register barrels with thunderbolts, then round, and banded muzzles. Smooth. Cal. 16 mm. Reverse side of one barrel and lock marked "JxL" (the other gun not disassembled). Long walnut barrels. Cut brass fittings. With two horn or wooden ramrods with horn tips. Barrel length: 17.6 or 17.7 cm - Overall length: 32 cm. Scratches and knocks from use; beginning of a tear on the neck of one hammer; a few spots of corrosion on the barrels near the thunder; a few cracks in the wood and a notch on one stock near a splint; chopsticks eaten.