FIREARMS. Flintlock cavalry pistol model AN IX, walnut frame with brass fittings, round barrel with thunder-flat hallmarked (illegible) and stamped "Mle AN 9" on the breech (apocryphal engraving), round-bodied lock engraved "Mre Imple de Versailles", iron ramrod with nail head. L: 37 cm, barrel: 21.3 cm. The barrel 7 mm longer than the one used on this model was certainly changed and regraved at the tail of breech, it comes perhaps from a pistol 1763-66. 1st Empire period. Pitting. ABE