Early Casimir Lefaucheux advertisement from 1839 and 1842

[Aaron]

Here is an early Casimir Lefaucheux advertisement from 1839 and another advertisement from someone from 1842 that I picked up on eBay.

This was was in JOURNAL DES DEBATS on Sunday, 18 August 1839

This one was also in JOURNAL DES DEBATS on Monday, 15 August 1842

[Aaron]

PERFECTIONNEMENT.
FUSILS LEFAUCHEUX, 10, rue de la Bourse.

MM. les CHASSEURS sont prévenus que dorénavant les FUSILS LEFAUCHEUX pourraient, à défaut de cartouches, se charger à la baguette comme les fusils à piston, an mayen d’un CULOT DE NOUVELLE INVENTION que maison Lefaucheux délivrera gratis avec chaque arme sortant de ses magasins.

On trouve dans la MAISON LEFAUCHEUX un assortiment complet de toute espèce d’armes à feu à charger par derrière ou ordinaires à piston.

What is this talking about? Some kind of auxiliary cartridge that can be reloaded? Maybe this???

Casimir Lefaucheux Patent 8955

[image] Here is the only copy of a patent by Casimir Lefaucheux that is known to exist in a private collection. This is French patent number 8955. It was filed on 26 July 1850 and approved on 23 October 1850. It describes a reusable pinfire shotshell that has a base that unscrews to allow easy reloading. It also pictures a tool to extract the shell from the gun and unscrew it. During the time period that this patent was made they would typically hand write and draw two copies of a patent; one…

or maybe something like this:

[Lefaucheux]

1834…

[Aaron]