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Lot 66

A Fine Pair Of Balkan 22-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols With Silver-Gilt Stocks
Boka Kotovska, 19th Century

24 April 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Pair Of Balkan 22-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols With Silver-Gilt Stocks
Boka Kotovska, 19th Century

With plain russet barrels, nielloed silver-gilt tang covers, flat bevelled locks (light surface rust, one side-nail missing) each with roller and lightly engraved with foliage on the tail, heavy full stocks with bulbous pommels each with a silver crescent on a nielloed silver cap, a further silver crescent on the back of each butt, decorated overall with raised foliate panels nielloed with flower-heads and foliage against a finely punched and gilt ground, trigger-guards and muzzle-sleeves en suite, gilt triggers, false ramrods, and in fine condition retaining virtually all their original gilding (2)
27.3 cm. barrels

Footnotes

The decoration is similar to that on the stock of a flintlock gun (kariophili) of the mid-1830s in Robert Elgood, The Arms Of Greece ..., 2009, p. 289, pl. 386 and frontispiece

For a very similar pair of pistols sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour, 4 April 2007, lot 53

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