"A True Luxury Product: The Dress Pistol of the..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2024 7:58 p.m. PST |
…Napoleonic Era
"Imagine you are a statesman of a country allied to Napoleonic France. Napoleon is visiting, and you are having a warm and welcoming chat. Your chances are very high that he will present you with a beautiful, ornate, expensive dress pistol to honour your loyalty. Napoleon liked gifting his allies as well as his best military men with such superb arms, and they were true luxury gifts. They were made by one of the most sought-after arms makers of the age at a specialised workshop at Versailles: Nicolas-Noël Boutet. Have a look at a beautiful example here…"
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| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2024 9:33 p.m. PST |
Napoleon's Elaborately Decorated Pistols Sell for $1.8 USD Million at Auction
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 deadhead  | 12 Jul 2024 12:06 p.m. PST |
I'll be honest. I would kill for the box. The pistols strike me as something a lady would carry, beneath her skirts, to defend her virtue and emasculate an assailant. Not a gentleman's weapon. But let us remember what Christopher Plummer said about Boney and being a gentleman. |
| DevoutDavout | 12 Jul 2024 1:02 p.m. PST |
Great price if you ask me. |
| Gazzola | 12 Jul 2024 1:34 p.m. PST |
These are 'weapons of honour', 'gifts', which is what they were, albeit functional ones, that were awarded for bravery etc. Pistols for officers. Grenadiers, line troops and cavalry received sabres or rifles. Can't imagine a lady wanting to keep a sabre under her skirts! LOL! And I'm pretty sure the late Christopher Plummer was born long after the Napoleonic period! LOL |
| Tango01 | 12 Jul 2024 3:12 p.m. PST |
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| dibble | 13 Jul 2024 1:55 a.m. PST |
Can't imagine a lady wanting to keep a sabre under her skirts! Unlike today of course. |
| Tango01 | 13 Jul 2024 3:06 p.m. PST |
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