VERY PRETTY, FULLY ENGRAVED, FOLDING TRIGGER, PINFIRE REVOLVER BY LE PAGE, PARIS

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Item Code: 490-7032

This is a beautiful pistol marred only by losses along the back edge and bottom of the white bone grips on the obverse, that would be well worth restoring. The pistol is fully engraved with foliate scrolls and leafy vines in raised figures on a stippled ground on the frame, cylinder, and backstrap, and incised on the rear portion of the barrel and sides and rear of the recoil shield, with short, simpler geometric motifs on the hammer and ejector-rod housing. The metal is smooth, with a pleasing muted silver-gray tone, with the raised elements brighter highlighted against the darker, stippled ground. The grips are bag shaped. The trigger is a folding trigger, making the pistol convenient for carriage in an overcoat pocket, even if the engraving is so nice, you’d want to keep taking it out to look at it. The grips are engraved “A” and “L” in Old English characters.

The top of the barrel is engraved in Old English characters, “Faure Le Page Paris.” Founded in 1716, that firm remained in the same family until 1913 and continues on in the manufacture of luxury leather goods. That particular name for the company name seems to have come into use starting in 1865 according to our sources. The pinfire was not the first self-contained cartridge, but it was very early, invented by Lefaucheux in 1832 or slightly earlier, patented in 1835, and very popular in the 1850s and into the 1860s, with some twelve thousand military Lefaucheux revolvers purchased by the US government in the Civil War. Southern purchases are not recorded, pinfire cartridges have been dug in Confederate camps and some higher-end revolvers made their way into field in the holsters of well-to-do officers who had acquired them from dealers specializing in elegant imported arms before the war or who, like Stonewall Jackson, were presented with them during the conflict.  In addition to its beautiful engraving, the mechanics are good on this one and the bore has deep rifling.  [sr][ph:m/L]

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