Flintlock converted percussion shotgun, single shot, signed "ROUSSELY A PERIGUEUX". Long round barrel with thunderbolts, signed "ROUSSELY A PERIGUEUX" on the upper side. Lock signed "ROUSSELY A PERIIGUEUX" and flat-bodied hammer engraved with scrolls. Cut-iron fittings engraved with scrolls and corbels. Beautiful walnut stock finely carved with semis of scales and the head of a fantastic marine animal. Rod. A.B.E. (Oxidation). Roussely, referenced in Périgueux in 1830-1855 in Qui est Qui de l'arme en France by J.J. Buigné and P. Jarlier.