A Spanish 16-Bore Madrid-Lock Belt Pistol
Signed Levis (sic) Deop, Circa 1765
With blued swamped two-stage barrel turned and chiselled with foliage at the girdle, octagonal breech with two gold-lined punzónes (gold mostly missing) of Eudal Pous (Neue Støckel 8083 and Lavin 81) within nine small silver-inlaid tree-shaped marks, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed flat bevelled lock engraved with rocailles, pan with water-drains and lip fitting into a recess in the steel, figured full stock with moulded borders and carved with rocailles (chipped) behind the barrel tang, brass mounts engraved with rocailles and foliage, comprising shaped side-plate, spurred pommel with silver cap embossed and chased as a human face, and trigger-guard with foliate finial, silver escutcheon en suite, turned and faceted brass ramrod-pipes, and later wooden ramrod (barrel and lock with some surface rust, belt hook missing)
20.7 cm. barrel
Sold for
£812
inc. premium
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Arms and Armour
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