Box Set Pair Of Percussion Pistols Loading System Lefaucheux Inventor In Paris 1845

Light walnut burl case trimmed with brass and burgundy velvet on the inside, it contains an extremely rare pair of system pistols produced by Casimir Lefaucheux around 1845, percussion operation, chambers with oscillating breech blocks which allow the loading of the powder charge without a dosette and the positioning of the bullet which is housed at the entrance of the two-rifled barrels. Damascus barrels with sides equipped with rear sight and sight, signatures chiseled on the top "Lefaucheux Inveur à Paris", retrograde and oscillating breech blocks for loading, with inertia block and percussion chimney. Longesses, frames, opening keys, plates and fittings, trigger guards with finger rests and caps engraved with foliage scrolls. Plates signed by the dealer "Ousset à Chartres". Screw heads are guilloché. Stocks in carved light walnut burl, Renaissance style. And its accessories: small rasp equipped with a hook and bullet-cutter-jet mold. With its key. Very good condition Mid-19th century period (small cracks on the lid, faded velvet) Interlaced CF hallmark under the damascus barrels for Casimir Lefaucheux in use in Liège from 1820 to 1850 produced by PJ Malherbede. This tilting barrel closing system for loading by thunder was patented on January 28, 1833 by Casimir Lefaucheux under number 5138, it is the famous system called the "break rifle". System greatly improved on the pair presented which has not yet been encountered elsewhere. Provenance: Private collection, purchased in 1988 Total L: 38 cm Barrel L: 20.4 cm Caliber 12mm Case: 26.5 x 44.5 x 8.5 cm Lefaucheux: Casimir (1802 – 1852) arquebusier and inventor Ousset in Chartres: Gunsmith in 1845.