Product Details
A. FRANCOTTE, LIEGE
A FINE AND RARE 8mm PINFIRE TWENTY-SHOT DOUBLE-ACTION OVER-UNDER REVOLVER, MODEL 'LEFAUCHEUX PATENT', serial no. 127749,
circa 1855, with super-imposed round 4 3/4in. barrels, the top barrel signed 'A FRANCOTTE A LIEGE', barleycorn fore-sight, open frame with partial borderline and scroll engraving (missing ejector rod), the side of breech marked 'E. LEFAUCHEUX INVR BREVETTE', double-nosed hammer, smooth walnut grips and lanyard ring to pommel, folding trigger, the whole retaining much original blued finish with straw colouration to hammer and trigger
Literature: For a similar revolver see Firearms Curiosa (first edition) by L. Winant, page 67 plate 59.
Estimate £1,000-1,500