FRANCE, milieu du XIXème siècle BERTHON BOURLIER Frères, Saint Étienne. Small officer-type pistol, privately ordered. Signed, scroll-engraved percussion cap rear plate, ornate hammer en suite. Octagonal damascus barrel. Scroll-engraved thunderbolt and breech. Hair stripes. Cal. 15 mm. Saint Étienne proofhouse stamp (palms). Short walnut shaft with squared stock and pommel carved with a frieze of leaves. Cut-iron fittings engraved with foliate scrolls, with barrel nose and domed oval pommel cap, decorated en suite. Iron ramrod with nail head. Barrel length: 16 cm - Overall length: 29.3 cm. Scratches and minor wear; broken barrel under lock, formerly glued back together; some minor oxidation. BERTHON BOURLIER Frères, harquebusiers in Saint Étienne between 1840 and 1855.