FRANCE, début du XIXème siècle - Premier Empire Two travel pistols, which can form a pendant. Flintlock locks and swan-neck hammers with round bodies. Smooth octagonal barrels. Signed below ....RADREUX and F. DUBOUCHET with Saint Étienne proofhouse stamp. Cal. 12 mm. Walnut shafts with checkered stocks. Cut-iron fittings. With two attached wooden ramrods. Barrel length: 8.8 cm - Overall length: 19.3 cm. One barrel cleaned. A few scratches, small cracks and knocks; a few cracks on one trigger guard; small chips in the wood. A dynasty of harquebusier-makers under the name DUBOUCHET is recorded as being active in Saint Étienne in the last third of the 18th century and early 19th century. However, none of its members has a first name beginning with F.