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Lot 56*
A Pair Of Turkish 22-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols And Holster19th Century
22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,800 inc. premium
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19th Century
19th Century
With two-stage barrels decorated with silver-damascened Arabic calligraphy along the forward sections towards the slightly flared muzzles, breeches each damascened in silver with a symmetrical design of foliage, silver-damascened tangs, engraved bright locks and cocks (one top jaw missing), full stocks carved along each fore-end and behind the barrel tang, butts inlaid with white-metal wire scrollwork and pellets, spurred silver pommels (one cap missing) cast and chased with foliage, engraved iron side-plates and trigger-guards, and no provision for ramrods: in their leather holster (worn) faced in red leather embroidered with foliage in green and copper-wrapped threads, the flap over the ammunition pouch en suite (3)
22.5 cm. barrels
22.5 cm. barrels








