BELGIQUE, époque Premier Empire Manufacture impériale de LIEGE. Heavy cavalry snap hook, model 1777-An IX. Iron flintlock lock, signed "Liege, Manufre Imple". Crowned G13 hallmark. Rod removed. Barrel with thunderbolt flanks, wide rounded flanks, then round. Marked "HY13" and "Mle an 9" on the breech. Smooth. Cal. 17 mm. With bayonet lug. Short walnut barrel. Brass and iron fittings. Hallmarked L crowned and numbered. With iron ramrod with brass tip. With an iron socket bayonet. Numbers and E* hallmark in escutcheon. Barrel length: 75.5 cm - overall length: 113.8 cm - ramrod length: 47.1 cm - bayonet length: 52.6 cm. Scratches, some deep, and knocks from use; barrel fractured under the lock plate, formerly restored with fillings, wormholes; oxidation and corrosion, notably on the trigger guard and clappers, partially repolished.