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A Fine And Rare Pair Of French 38-Bore Flintlock Rifled Holster Pistols image 1
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Lot 119*

A Fine And Rare Pair Of French 38-Bore Flintlock Rifled Holster Pistols
By Thuraine A Paris, Circa 1670

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Fine Antique Arms and Armour Including items from the Per T. Norheim Collection
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine And Rare Pair Of French 38-Bore Flintlock Rifled Holster Pistols
By Thuraine A Paris, Circa 1670

With four-stage barrels each cut with ten grooves, silver fore-sights, finely engraved tangs, signed rounded locks finely engraved with differing designs of scrollwork, birds, and Classical figures, and with chiselled details on the cocks and steels, carved Grenoble walnut full stocks, finely engraved iron mounts decorated with differing designs en suite with the locks, spurred pommels each with a silver grotesque mask cap on a finely pierced and engraved oval panel, cast and chased scrolled silver side-plates, turned iron ramrod-pipes (each forward pipe replaced), and later ramrods, the escutcheons of silver cast and chased with foliage, with a crown above and two affronted dolphin-heads beneath (some wear overall, one cock, one steel, and part of each fore-stock replaced) (2)
33.7 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance:
Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour, 20 November 1996, lot 293

Literature:
W. Taylor, 'Are these Prince Eugene's Pistols (?)', Arms Cavalcade, pp. 10-13, and cover illustrations, where it is suggested that these pistols were made for Prince Eugene of Savoy (b.1663-d.1736)

Thuraine, gunmaker to Louis XIV, together with Le Hollandois (also appointed Arquebusier Ordinaire du Roi in about 1656) is famous for his pattern books as well as his execution of Royal commissions

For a similar pair of pistols see Christie's London, Fine Modern Sporting Guns and Antique Arms, 18 December 1974, lot 209

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Please note that one cock and one steel are perhaps replaced

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
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A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
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