with minor differences, with sighted barrels fitted with silver bead fore-sights on a gilt sunburst, the breeches decorated with a band of gilt fleur-de-lys, three gold lines, signed 'Baucheron Pirmet à Paris Arq^{er des Princes' and 'Baucheron Pirmet Arquer des Princes à Paris' in gold and numbered '3' and '4' in gold respectively, engraved breech tangs incorporating moulded back sights, flat locks engraved with neo classical foliage, signed in a gold oval beneath the percussion bolsters and with the Royal Arms  on the tails, fitted with engraved hammers numbered en suite with the breeches, figured walnut half-stocks carved with a panel of chequering on the fore-ends and the grips, each fitted with their original green velvet pad with a border of woven silver thread, engraved steel mounts including side-plates formed as a pair of addorsed swans, trigger-guards decorated with hounds on the bows, pierced butt-plates incorporating a shoulder pad, engraved ramrod-pipe, gold escutcheons engraved with the owner's initials beneath a ducal coronet, and brass-tipped baleen ramrod (the steel parts with areas of rust, the gold with losses, the stocks rubbed, sling swivels missing)}

Comparative Literature:
Mémoires de la Comtesse de Boigne née d'Osmond, Vol.II, Paris, 1999, p.100

Baucheron Pirmet are recorded in Paris circa 1823-56.  They produced sporting weapons and also ran a sword manufactory.  They are recorded as maker's to the Duc d'Angoulême, the Duc de Berry, and the Duc de Chartres.

The Duchesse de Berry was a keen hunter and accompanied by her dog "Foliche" and her court ladies, particularly the Comtesse de La Rochejaquelein, she often went shooting rabbits in the park of Rosny. The Comtesse de Boigne writes in her memories: "Je n'ai jamais pu me réconcilier au goût de la princesse pour la chasse au fusil. Madame de La Rochejaquelein le lui avait inspiré. Ces dames tiraient des lapins, et, pour reconnaître ceux qu'elles avaient tués, elles leurs coupaient un morceau d'oreille avec un petit poignard qu'elles portaient à cet effet et mettaient ce bout dans la poitrine de leur veste. A la rentrée au château, on faisait le compte de ces trophées ensanglantés. Cela m'a toujours paru horrible."