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Not from a web site, from an old-fashioned book (remember those?).
Anyway, here is a picture. Look at the butt, the fore-end brass, the lockplate shape (aside from the top), the checkering, etc. Hicks used line drawings, which are actually better than photos for identification. This is the only picture of that gun in Hicks' book; he shows the conversions of some other pistols, but not that one. French nomenclature is confusing; they did not simply adopt a standard pistol or musket and issue it to everybody. They had police guns, guards guns, colonial guns, etc. And there is another flint pistol called the Model 1816; it differs in stock and in the lockplate. I found a couple of those in my own web search.
To top off the problems of making sense out of French weapons of that era, France, from 1793 to 1805 dropped the "A.D." year and used the "Republican calendar" in which the year ran from Sept. to Sept. so, as an example, Sept. 23, 1804-Sept 22, 1805 was Year XIII.
Anyway, enough. Here is the picture. I hope you can use it.
Jim
Last edited by James K; July 19, 2009 at 10:32 PM.
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