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Re: French pistol c.1850
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:43 pm
by DuncaninFrance
Looks exquisite Eoin, almost two clean and you could cut your finger on that rifling!
This might shed some light on M.Fournier!
https://www.ima-usa.com/products/origin ... 8244517893 
Re: French pistol c.1850
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:06 pm
by Aughnanure
Thanks Duncan,
I was going to ask you for some info , maybe some French sites have more on him.
I can work my way through technical French terms, having had some practice at Cockatoo Dockyard when we were building HMAS “Supply”.
It was a French design and the Government didn’t insist in the contract that plans and notes be in English, so the French fulfilled the contract by sending everything in the original.
A consequence was that two French Naval Officers spent a lot of time in Australia and at our expense
