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Lot 200

A Fine Small Pair Of Italian 120-Bore Brass-Mounted Roman-Lock Pistols
Mid-18th Century

24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Small Pair Of Italian 120-Bore Brass-Mounted Roman-Lock Pistols
Mid-18th Century

With two-stage brass barrels, octagonal breeches and plain brass tangs, characteristic flat bevelled locks (one steel expertly replaced) each engraved with foliage and involving a profile head on the tail, highly figured moulded full stocks each with impressed ownership mark on the butt (one with minor repair), foliate engraved mounts comprising pierced elaborate side-plates, pierced crowned escutcheons each centred on a grotesque mask, spurred pommels each with small grotesque mask cap, trigger-guards with foliate finials (one missing) and with a foliated grotesque mask on the bow, turned baluster ramrod-pipes, the rear ones each with foliate finial, brass fore-end bands, and original brass-tipped ramrods (one incomplete) (2)
11 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance:
Wallis & Wallis, March 1956, according to a handwritten note rolled into one barrel

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