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A Balkan 22-Bore Flintlock Pistol With Nielloed Silver-Gilt Stock19th Century
24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,040 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Balkan 22-Bore Flintlock Pistol With Nielloed Silver-Gilt Stock
19th Century
19th Century
With barrel retaining traces of chiselled decoration at the breech and struck with pseudo barrelsmith's marks along one side, tang covered in nielloed silver-gilt with foliate finial, engraved flat bevelled lock, heavy full stock with curved butt and fluted bulbous pommel decorated overall against a finely punched ground with nielloed foliage and flower-heads involving a stag hunting scene opposite the lock, three figures on the butt, one armed with a sword and two each carrying a horn, fore-end with a figure wrestling a lion and portrait medallions, muzzle-sleeve en suite and involving an armoured female figure, trigger-guard with a running deer on the bow, gilt trigger, false ramrod, and some original gilding overall
20.8 cm. barrel
20.8 cm. barrel








