Original Belgian "Versailles" Style Rifled Officer's Percussion Pistol marked EX on Lock and Barrel - Circa 1840 Manufacture Type_Original Items including some tears

including some tears

Inc Size Large offered in excellent condition

which are faint but definitely still legible with a magnifier:

and has the standard nickel silver (German Silver) fittings

Field hospitals were initially in the open air

Original Belgian "Versailles" Style Rifled Officer's Percussion Pistol marked EX on Lock and Barrel - Circa 1840 Manufacture Type_Original Items including some tearsOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a lovely Belgian made Officer's Pistol, made very much in the high end French style of the day, known as the "Versailles" style. Designed by famed gunsmith Nicolas Nol Boutet, this pattern pistols were very popular and extensively made for French Officers. This example was almost certainly made in Lige, Belgium, a gunmaking center even today, which had been under French and then Dutch control until the early