PISTOLET DE CAVALERIE MODÈLE 1763-66.

CAVALRY PISTOL MODEL 1763-66.
Round barrel marked L3, tail of breech
marked M1763. Lock with flintlock engraved Mre
of Libreville and L3, hammer with flat body. stick
in drowning marked L3, a setting to be announced
under the shoe tree. All iron fittings
marked L, L3 or L. Baguette type nail.
Good mechanics

39 cm, ABE

France, Revolutionary period.
(One can think that the markings L3
correspond to Libreville for L and year III
of the republic for AN 3 which would bring us
to L year 1794/1795, Charleville
having been called Libreville during the revolution,
that seems coherent).