Firearms Factory, SAINT-ÉTIENNE, Hunting rifle - double-barreled shotgun with cap locks

Knitted steel; walnut wood; engravings; barrel length 79 cm, with catch 80.3 cm; overall length 119 cm.
France, Saint-Étienne, 19th century.
Pair of plain barrels, in quirked steel - connected by a wide, slightly concave rail. On the underside of the barrels in the bottom part beaten patent inscriptions and gunsmith marks: "BREVET DINVENTION / BREUIL / GLAIZE"; the number "16" in an oval; the inscription: ETIENNE" and the manufactory mark with crossed palm branches under the crown. Walnut bed, short, carved with acanthus thread motifs; on the back of the neck a pair of birds, underneath the barrel - a squirrel. The flask with a prominent cheekpiece; the foot is trimmed with a steel shank with a short mustache. Steel elements decorated with engraving with floral vicia; on the breech plate and counterblade - among the florescence - a motif of a hunting dog.
The trigger guard with a long mustache, in the arched part decorated with an engraving with a bear's head; the arch support of the guard is a full-figured figure of a dog sitting under a tree. Under the barrel placed in cylindrical sleeves wooden stamp. On the underside of the flask and on the center sleeve of the stamp - movable entablatures for the riser.