14mm (.55 caliber). 6.125" wedge retained swamped octagonal barrels with hooked breeches. NSN. Browned finish, iron furniture, European hardwood stocks. Single shot flintlock coat pistols with microgroove rifled bores, fixed notch rear sights and brass blade front sights. Flat 3.5" flint locks with pronounced teats at rear are unmarked with rounded fenced and bridled detachable iron water proof pans, faceted frizzens and curled frizzen toes. Locks remain in original flint with flat swan neck cocks. Barrels decorated with gold gilt lines and simple foliate motifs at the breeches and lines at the muzzle. Raised touch marks in depressed ovals are present at the breech on top and both upper angled flats, with the right one appearing to be a commercial St. Etienne proof. Left breech flat with the {CROWN}/AM mark of Augustin Merley-Duon of St. Etienne. Bottoms of barrels with weak A MERELY markings. The pistols include wooden ramrods secured by a single thimble and an entry pipe. Augustin Merley-Duon (1789-1855) was the son of St. Etienne gunmaker Antoine Merley-Duon. Augustine apprenticed under his father and worked on his own circa 1812 to 1855. He was working at St. Etienne by the 1817, where he became the first inspector to proof civilian firearm barrels since before the French Revolution and continued to do so until his death in 1855. He won numerous French awards for the production of quality firearms, including one in 1819 and one in 1832. (Stockel) {ANTIQUE}