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A Balkan (Souliot) 22-Bore Flintlock Pistol With Silver Stock19th Century
25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,250 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Balkan (Souliot) 22-Bore Flintlock Pistol With Silver Stock
19th Century
19th Century
With plain barrel with three recesses for missing marks at the breech, tang covered by a replacement silver plate grooved for sighting and chased with foliage, lightly engraved rounded lock, heavy full stock with slightly down bent tapering 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, trigger-guard, muzzle-sleeve and false ramrod all en suite, and with foliate trigger (barrel and lock with some wear and pitting)
29.3 cm. barrel
29.3 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For a pair of similar pistols see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, p. 323, nos. 293, 294








