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Lot 118*
A Rare Pair Of French 38-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols With The Cypher Of Christian V, King Of Denmark And Norway (1670-1699)By Manchon A Paris, Circa 1670
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £19,800 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Rare Pair Of French 38-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols With The Cypher Of Christian V, King Of Denmark And Norway (1670-1699)
By Manchon A Paris, Circa 1670
By Manchon A Paris, Circa 1670
With slender tapering barrels each in three stages, the lightly engraved breech sections octagonal then fluted, silver fore-sights, long lightly engraved tangs, signed rounded locks (reconverted from percussion) finely engraved with differing grotesque demi-figures and foliated scrolls, engraved and chiselled rounded cocks, moulded figured walnut full stocks each with a raised panel at the barrel tang (fore-ends expertly replaced in front of the ramrod-pipes) carved in relief with scrolls in front of the locks, lightly engraved steel mounts, flat side-plates finely pierced and engraved with differing designs of foliated scrollwork bearing flowers and involving animals and human figures of a whimsical and risqué nature, finely engraved oval pommels with long slender spurs, shaped escutcheons each engraved with crowned cypher, engraved trigger-plates, baluster ramrod-pipes, and later steel-capped ramrods (some wear and minor surface pitting) (2)
34.2 cm. barrels
34.2 cm. barrels
Footnotes
This is probably one of the pairs of pistols sold from the Danish Royal Armouries in Copenhagen in 1837








