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Commandante Theresa's pistols?

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Naphtali

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I just watched the first episode of the TV movie series on Richard Sharpe during the Napoleonic Wars. The episode, "Sharpe's Rifles," has the female lead using a pair of [brass??] flintlock pistols that have spring-loaded locking daggers beneath the barrel.

What are these pistols? Are they reproductions of a pistol of the era?
 
Didn't see the show but yep, in the days of gore, uh, yore they had multitasking swing out blades on some pistols. Had head knockers on the butts of some. Somewhere or the other once saw a photo of one with a tomahawk type blade. Another with a ring around the muzzle fitted with spikes.

Did a search and came up with this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_sword

That's enough to make the hockey masked maniac envious!
 
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This one?

Armand_A_Paris_blunderbuss_pistol.jpg


http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Enemy#Boxlock_Blunderbuss
 
While the hand grip is rounded where Theresa's was sharp and angular, the metal appears to be the same.

Many thanks.
 

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