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Lot 127*

A Balkan 25-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol With Nielloed Silver Stock
19th Century

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £937.50 inc. premium

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A Balkan 25-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol With Nielloed Silver Stock
19th Century

With shortened barrel(light pitting)with silver-inlaid decoration at the breech and retained by a silver barrel band at the muzzle, tang now covered by silver plates, border engraved flat bevelled lock with semi-rainproof pan, full stock with curved butt cast and chased overall with foliage in relief against finely punched grounds and enriched with nielloed flower-heads and ribbon-like borders, and with a trophy beneath the fore-end and a vase in front of the trigger-guard, the latter nielloed with a flower-head on the bow, spirally-fluted pommel, and false ramrod (muzzle-sleeve missing)
23.2 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For a similar example sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 20 April 2011, lot 64

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