FIREARMS. Lightened 1840 model percussion rampart rifle with walnut frame, 20.5 mm cal. round rifled barrel with thunderbolts and graduated movable frog for firing from 300 to 600 m, fixed frog, stamped and dated 1842, bayonet lug, round-bodied rear lock and hammer engraved "Manufre Rle de Châtellerault", stamped iron fittings, beak buttplate, trigger guard with handguard, iron ramrod. L: 129 cm, barrel: 81 cm. Traces of oxidation. ABE