Straight, double-edged blade, a fuller at the centre, entirely engraved with fine depictions of birds, flowers and racemes inside the groove, only the base is smooth, near the base two cartouches respectively featuring the inscriptions "DUMONTHIER" and "BREVET D.on"; on the sides of the blade two round, smooth, 9 mm cal. barrels, engraved en suite; steel hilt, the two parry quillon consisting in the hammers, the quillon-block the pistons; the weapons shoots through one foldaway trigger only, activating the right hammer first, the left afterward; the iron grip, curved (shaped as a pistol) contains the springs and the mechanisms; twisted grip scales in German silver.
Straight, double-edged blade, a fuller at the centre, entirely engraved with fine depictions of birds, flowers and racemes inside the groove, only the base is smooth, near the base two cartouches respectively featuring the inscriptions "DUMONTHIER" and "BREVET D.on"; on the sides of the blade two round, smooth, 9 mm cal. barrels, engraved en suite; steel hilt, the two parry quillon consisting in the hammers, the quillon-block the pistons; the weapons shoots through one foldaway trigger only, activating the right hammer first, the left afterward; the iron grip, curved (shaped as a pistol) contains the springs and the mechanisms; twisted grip scales in German silver.
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