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Tuesday 25 March 2025 e Wednesday 26 March 2025, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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A beautiful short double-barreled rifle by Moulard Dufourd, 1840 circa

Estimate

€ 1.000 - 1.500

Sold

€ 1.250

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

St. Etienne
length 90.5 cm.
Rifled, juxtaposed, 19 mm cal. barrels, browned and with damascus pattern, concave rib signed "MOULARD DUFOURD A ST. ETIENNE" in gold; with foresight. Wide tang engraved and provided with sight. Forward spring locks engraved with floral motifs. Half stock of briarwood with finely checkered interlaced palm rest and grip; the lower part of the butt beautifully sculpted with a boar's head and a floral rosette. Iron mounts; trigger guard decorated with a hound in high relief, at the front engraved with a medallion featuring a bird. The butt-plate engraved with floral motifs, openable and with two compartments inside containing a screwdriver and a cylindrical wooden case. The mouthpiece of the iron ramrod finely carved as a wolf's head. Brass-tipped, wooden ramrod with iron cartridge extractors.