Officer's double flintlock pistol. Round, table-top barrels with thunderbolts, decorated in gold, marked "Canon Tordu" on the band. Lock plates signed "Manufre Royale de Saint-Etienne", engraved with trophy tails and round-bodied swan-neck hammers. Fine silver fittings, hallmarked, engraved and chased with foliate scrolls and trophies of arms. Long-eared pommel, line-decorated and embellished with six stars surrounding a crescent. Long stock in varnished walnut, partly carved, with silver thumb piece engraved with an ostrich holding a key in its beak. Rod with silver and iron tip. Length: 36 cm A.B.E. (Traces of use, barrel slightly oxidized). Circa 1760-1780.