DRAGON RIFLE FROM THE TULLE MANUFACTURE, model year IX, First Empire. 20036
Short five-sided thunder barrel, length 1.025 meters, length with breech tail 1.08 meters, caliber 17.5 mm. Wooden frame. Butt with cheek stamped “EF ...(illegible)” and the hallmark on the cock with the inscription “PLD”. Brass mouthpiece with steel spring fixing. Steel grenadière fixed by a spring placed in the center of the two bands and resting on the inner band. Brass nasturtium similarly fixed. Brass trigger guard and counterplate. Platinum model year IX signed “Mre Imple De Tulle”. Steel butt plate.
All the fittings and the plate are stamped with the “C” under the crown of Jean Cazamajou, born in 1784. Entering Versailles in 1800, he returned there on January 1, 1809 as 2nd controller and left the Versailles factory for that of Tulle in September 1811. Steel rod.
Total length of the rifle 1.41 meters.
France.
First Empire.
Good condition, a few wormholes mainly on the butt.
Reference :
20036