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A Pair Of Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols (Zlatkas) With Silver-Gilt MountsPrizren, Early 19th Century
25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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Prizren, Early 19th Century
Prizren, Early 19th Century
With barrels each lightly chiselled with foliage at the breech and with four brass-lined barrelsmith's marks at the octagonal breech, tangs grooved for sighting, border engraved flat bevelled locks and cocks decorated with foliate scrollwork, wooden full stocks entirely covered in silver-gilt secured by pins and finely embossed and chased overall with scrolling foliage involving flower-heads and scallop shells, all against a finely stippled ground, spurred pommels, muzzle-sleeves, and barrel bands (one an old replacement) en suite, butts bound with twisted silver and plain brass wire, foliate engraved false ramrods, and retaining nearly all their original gilding (2)
31.8 cm. barrels
31.8 cm. barrels
Footnotes
For a similar pair of pistols, believed to have been owned by Captain Henry Digby, who commanded H.M.S. Africa at the battle of the Nile in 1798, see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, p. 191, figs. 246-247








