Officer's flintlock combat rifle. - Lot 255

Officer's flintlock combat rifle. Slightly blunderbuss barrel with hairline muzzle, with small remnants of bluing decorated with gold lightning bolts around the rear sight and marked on the band "Manufacture de Versailles". Stéphanois hallmarks enriched with gold thunder. The lock is engraved "Cazes à Toulouse" and the hammer has a flat body. Iron basin, with spark guard, spring said with roller, chiselled screws, adjustable trigger. Chased and cut iron fittings, urn trigger guard and oval cap. Rod in fanon with horn tip. Stock in drowning finely squared with system with bayonet on the back for fixing of a stock in drowning carved, with cheek and drawer, allowing the transformation into rifle. Length of the barrel: 22,2 cm Overall length: 36 cm Length with stock: 65,5 cm B.E. Period Ier Empire. Small blow on the stick. Cazes " Artist in Toulouse ", active from 1790 to 1845.