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Lot 445

A Fine Pair Of 30-Bore French D.B. Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Blanchar A Paris, Circa 1730-40

24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £12,000 inc. premium

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A Fine Pair Of 30-Bore French D.B. Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Blanchar A Paris, Circa 1730-40

With slightly swamped barrels retaining nearly all their original blued finish and decorated with panels of gold-damascened scrolls and strapwork on the rib, the breeches, and around the silver fore-sight, the rib signed in gold letters, gilt touch-holes, engraved tangs grooved for sighting, signed engraved flat bevelled lock-plates, engraved cocks and steels (one cock expertly replaced), moulded figured walnut full stocks carved in relief with a spray of foliage to the rear of each barrel tang and rear ramrod-pipe, and with a pendant tassel behind each breech, engraved iron mounts, the trigger-guards decorated with scrolls and strapwork centred on an expanded flower-head, and each with chiselled acanthus finial supported by a lion-mask, the spurred pommels each with oval cap chiselled in low relief with a differing portrait bust of Minerva, faceted ramrod-pipes, and original ramrods (2)
28.7 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance:
Joe Kindig, Jr., York, Pennsylvania
The Visser Collection, Part II, Sotheby & Co., London, 3 June 1991, lot 87 (£9,350 including premium)

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