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Gunsmith Nicolas Noël Boutet French
The small size, streamlined sides, and folding trigger enabled a pistol such as this to be carried comfortably in a gentleman’s pocket. The designs finely engraved in the steel and inlaid in silver on the wood are derived from French pattern books of the middle to late eighteenth century.
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Title: Flintlock Pocket Pistol with Bullet Mould and Case
Gunsmith:
Nicolas Noël Boutet (French, Versailles and Paris, 1761–1833)
Date: ca. 1800
Geography: Versailles
Culture: French, Versailles
Medium: Steel, wood, silver, brass, textile, leather
Dimensions: L. of pistol 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); L. of bullet mould 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); Cal. .63 in. (16 mm); Wt. 6 oz. (170.1 g)
Classification: Firearms-Pistols-Flintlock
Credit Line: Gift of George Henry Warren, 1952
Accession Number: 52.44.1–.3
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