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A Balkan (Souliot) 16-Bore Flintlock Pistol With Silver Stock
19th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Balkan (Souliot) 16-Bore Flintlock Pistol With Silver Stock
19th Century

With plain barrel struck with three marks at the breech, tang covered with a silver-gilt plate extending over the breech and cast and chased with a shell and foliage inhabited by two birds at the top, border engraved rounded lock with a pierced bridle over the steel-spring, heavy full-stock with tapering slightly curved butt cast and chased overall in relief with flower-heads, scallop shells and scrollwork highlighted with small nielloed panels, bulbous pommel en suite and with pierced foliate terminal, pierced suspension swivel, trigger-guard and muzzle-sleeve (minor repair) all en suite, gilt trigger cast and pierced with a monster-head and foliage, false ramrod also en suite, and traces of original gilding (iron parts with minor rust patination)
32.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For a pair of similar pistols see Robert Elgood, The Arms Of Greece ..., 2009, p. 323, nos. 293, 294; and for another example sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour, 30 November 2006, lot 81

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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