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A Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol (Ledenica) With Silver-Gilt StockBoka Kotorska, 19th Century
25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,875 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol (Ledenica) With Silver-Gilt Stock
Boka Kotorska, 19th Century
Boka Kotorska, 19th Century
With barrel engraved with foliage and with three brass-lined marks at the breech, plain tang, lightly engraved lock and cock, heavy full stock with curved partly fluted butt cast and chased in relief overall with foliage and scallop shells involving trophies of arms on the fore-end, behind the barrel tang and opposite the lock, all the decoration within ribbon-like borders and against punched and chequered grounds, diagonally fluted pommel with grotesque mask cap, trigger-guard and muzzle-sleeve en suite with the stock, gilt foliate trigger, false ramrod, and retaining much original gilding
31.4 cm. barrel
31.4 cm. barrel
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Cf. a related pistol sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 28 November 2012, lot 136








