Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories dated 1856 Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette French The designs represented in an album in the Metropolitan Museum's collection (acc. no. ) were engraved on pieces such as this pistol by Gastinne-Renette, who ran a successful Parisian firm specializing in highly decorated custom firearms. He was gunmaker to the emperor of France and the king of Spain and was awarded medals for his craftsmanship at several international expositions between the 1840s and the Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories 27165

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