12mm. 7.125" octagonal barrel. SN: 4850. Blued finish, iron furniture, European hardwood stock. Single shot breechloading needle fire pistol with tilting breech action, adjustable rear sight, dovetailed front sight blade and lanyard ring in butt. Top of barrel marked "DREYSE SOMMEDRA". Left of barrel breech with serial number "4850". Barrel decorated with silver and gold highlights. Iron furniture decorated with deep relief engraving, featuring flowing folate themes with the action lever and nose cap engraved with cross hatched patterns. Deeply fluted target style grip. A rare, early self-contained cartridge pistol that used a paper, rather than metallic cartridge. {ANTIQUE}

About Very Good. Bore fair, heavily oxidized with pitting and weak rifling, Metal with a mostly plum brown patina with some scattered traces of blue, mostly in protected areas. Some gold and silver highlights remain, mostly worn and faded. Bolt and mechanism are modern made to replicate the original bolt and do not actually function. Not mechanically functional. Wood with some scattered bumps, dings and mars.