Pair of Percussion Target Pistols Made for Display at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851, dated 1851
Pair of Percussion Target Pistols Made for Display at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851, dated 1851, Paris, French, Paris, Steel, wood (ebony), gold, L. of each pistol 17 1/4 in. (44 cm); L. of each barrel 11 3/8 in. ( cm); Cal. of each barrel .46 in. (12 mm), Firearms-Pistols-Percussion, Made by the Parisian gunsmith Alfred Gauvain (1801–1889) for display at the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in London in 1851, these pistols are masterpieces of iron chiseling in the Renaissance Revival style that was popular in mid-nineteenth-century design
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