Pair Of Pistols Belonging To General ……, General Staff Officer For Garrisons. Signed “versailles”

Octagonal and then round barrels with a small flat spot on top, made of burnished iron, stamped with "NB" intertwined within a hexagon, and three bars: "BC" twice, and in the center a bar marked "BOUTET," signed on the upper flat surface "Entse Boutet," length 24.3 cm, 29.2 cm including the breech, 16 mm caliber, hair-خط; iron breeches; flat-bodied, white-polished lock plates, signed: “MANUFre à Versailles,” domed hammers, iron basins, all fittings in white-polished cut iron, a thick oval silver cap adorned around the rim with a frieze of semicircles and palmettes, on top, a trophy featuring a crossed sword and axe intertwined by an oak wreath against a background of branches; walnut stocks with long barrels, finely checkered "pensée" grips; iron ramrods.
Total length of each pistol: 40 cm,
France. Consulate, First Empire. Good condition.
HAMMERS REPLACED AT THE TIME (according to family tradition, during a battle, the hammer of one of the signed-collar pistols broke; consequently, the general decided to install standard, more robust hammers to prevent a recurrence of this incident, which could have cost him his life).