Superb POTTET à PARIS percussion shotgun case. Table-top, damascus barrels, signed in gold on the band "Pottet 5 rue de Luxembourg à Paris", hallmarked Leopold Bernard and dated 1853. Front locks signed in gold "POTTET Bte A PARIS", flat-bodied hammers, breech tail and trigger guard in gray tempered steel engraved with foliate scrolls. The ramrod entrance, trigger guard and buttplate return are engraved in succession and blued. Varnished, marbled walnut stock with "BG" thumbpiece in Gothic letters. Presented in its oak case with hook closure, sheathed in green felt and signed in the lid "POTTET A PARIS", with its accessories: - powder flask with bezel signed BOCHE A PARIS, sheathed in leather and brass. - brass primer dispenser signed by BOCHE A PARIS. - capsule box. - cookie cutter. - oil cruet. - horn and brass powder flask. - screwdriver. Rifle length: 108 cm Case: 76 x 23 x Height 4.5 cm B.E. (lock entrance to be refixed). Circa 1850. Armurier, harquebusier and inventor in Paris. Former foreman of PAULY. Usually listed as having finished business in 1849, at 1, rue Neuve du Luxembourg, Paris.