There exist pinless locks. NOT saying this is one, but, it has been done, mostly in Italy.

The advantages of the Ideal, the slim metalwork with rounded action, different, but, useful opening lever, and the ability to cock or uncock the gun with the opening lever, would be mostly lost were the Ideal guts stuffed into a conventional looking frame.

I don't see the point. Did a Frenchman really believe an Englishman would be tempted to buy and use one of these, versus what was availabe in his hometown, or, close by, produced by his neighbors?

More than one Frenchman has told me to imagine anything the English do, and then understand a Frenchman does the opposite.


Best,
Ted