His original pistol is currently on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Ī Lefaucheux 7mm pistol is said to have been the type used by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh, who in 1880 fatally shot himself. ![]() In 2016, that original pistol sold at a Paris auction for 435,000 euros. The popular French poet Paul Verlaine used one to shoot and wound another French poet, Arthur Rimbaud in 1873. This 7mm model also had something of a reputation among European arts and cultural circles in the 19th century and was a popular personal-carry piece in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. The US government purchased 11,000 model M1854 13mm calibre pistols (originally developed for the French navy) for the Union army’s cavalry and some also found their way into Confederacy hands – most likely via New Orleans – during the American Civil War. ![]() ![]() In 1846, Lefaucheux pinfire revolvers – named after pinfire bullet inventor Casimir Lefaucheux 1802-1852 (pictured below) – were the first to use an all-metallic bullet and were in commercial production until about 1873.
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