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Lot 64

A Fine Pair Of Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols (Kubura) And Ramrod (Suma)
19th Century, Probably Peć Or Shkodra

25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Pair Of Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols (Kubura) And Ramrod (Suma)
19th Century, Probably Peć Or Shkodra

With two-stage export barrels each retaining traces of maker's name at the breech and struck with barrelsmith's mark and pseudo proof marks, rounded locks each with waved border and engraved with a scroll inscribed 'Danzig' issuing from the mouth of a dolphin, tails chiselled with a grotesque mask, cocks chiselled and engraved with foliage, steels (one chipped) en suite, and rollers, silver full stocks embossed and chased with scrolling foliage against punched grounds along the fore-ends, one side at the muzzle stamped 'M:A:I:', probably the owner's initials, the butts covered in silver filigree set with silver beadwork and diamonds along the back, opposite the locks and on the pommels, trigger-guards, ramrod-pipes and pierced muzzle-sleeves all en suite, the last each with silver fore-sight, foliate silver triggers, and original steel ramrods with baluster tips; together with their original suma, the turned steel rod of octagonal section silver-damascened with alternate lines of foliage and dots, the grip and suspension loop en suite with the pistols, the latter set on each side with a piece of faceted green glass in imitation of an emerald, and all in fine condition (3)
33.5 cm. barrels and 50 cm. long

Footnotes

For related pistols see Robert Elgood, The Arms Of Greece..., 2009, pp. 184 and 189, figs. 226 and 240

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