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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 Rare Pair Of Dutch 32-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols image 1
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Lot 120*

A Rare Pair Of Dutch 32-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Jean Ghiot, Circa 1670

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 Rare Pair Of Dutch 32-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Jean Ghiot, Circa 1670

With tapering barrels each with baluster muzzle ring, the breeches with reeded ramp and applied pierced and engraved silver band above the touch-hole, on the underside of each the 'CMIL' Maastricht mark, plain tangs, signed rounded border engraved locks with a symmetrical design of foliated scrolls on the tail, rounded cocks engraved with a bird perched on a scroll, moulded figured walnut full stocks with a raised panel at the barrel tang and carved in relief with running scrolls behind the barrel and on the fore-stock, cast and chased silver mounts, elaborate pierced side-plates decorated in relief with foliate scrolls inhabited by two affronted mounted horsemen, spurred pommels with two further horsemen each firing his pistol and set with two oval medallions within laurel branches, engraved respectively 'XX Sept 1697' and 'VNP' (Volrad Naussau Princeps?) over 'DG', the oval caps each in the form of a Classical portrait bust in relief within a pierced border, shaped trigger-guards, the finials pierced with foliated scrollwork in relief and with applied Classical profile busts on each bow, pierced escutcheons supported by a pair of putti and surmounted by a crown, the central medallion engraved with the quartered coat-of-arms of Volrad, Prince of Nassau-Vsingen, cast and chased ramrod-pipes, the rear ones each with pierced finial en suite with those on the trigger-guards, and later silver-tipped ramrods (some slight wear and minor surface pitting) (2)
35.3 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Walrad (Volrad) Prince of Nassau-Vsingen (1635-1702), third son of Count Wilhelm Ludwig of Nassau-Saarbrucken-Weilburg, was Dutch Field Marshal in 1689 and Habsburg Imperial Field Marshal in 1690. He took part in seventeen battles and twenty-seven sieges. The date on the pommels refers to the Peace of Rijswijk which ended the War of the League of Augsburg (consisting of the Netherlands, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Spain, the Papal States, Venice and England) fought to reverse King Louis XIV of France's expansionist policies

A pair of pistols with very similar mounts, including side-plates of identical design, was sold at Christie's London on 7 May 1981, lot 150

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