Castano Y Rusta
Nice
Spanish pistol with miquelet lock.
- length:
33 cm
-
caliber: 17.1 mm
- marking
on the lock: CASTANO
- marking
on the barrel: Y RUSTA
Note that
these two manufacturers are listed in the Stockel: the combination of the two
dates it between 1790 and 1810.
-
whalebone ramrod equipped with a "rag puller" and threaded to screw a bullet
puller
-
numerous gilding and gold light
- the
last marking under the barrel, and it is the one that catches my attention, is
ERADV.
A
particularity that I have not encountered while searching everywhere is its
style: it is in the configuration of French pistols from the consulate/empire
period, in terms of the wood, the lock screw rosettes, the trigger guard and the
cap.
Gilles
