Double-Barreled Percussion Shotgun, dated 1854, Paris, French, Paris, Steel, wood (walnut), silver, L. 46 3/5 in. ( cm

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Double-Barreled Percussion Shotgun, dated 1854, Paris, French, Paris, Steel, wood (walnut), silver, L. 46 3/5 in. ( cm); L. of barrel 29 1/8 in. ( cm), Firearms, This is presumably the 'richly decorated gun' said to have been exhibited by Perrin in 1855 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and again in 1862 at the International Exhibition in London. Undoubtedly Louis Perrin's masterpiece, this shotgun is one of the most ambitious firearms of its period

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