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Lot 67

A Pair Of Balkan 22-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols (Zlatkas) With Nielloed Silver-Gilt Stocks
Boka Kotorska, 19th Century

25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£5,000 - £7,000

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A Pair Of Balkan 22-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols (Zlatkas) With Nielloed Silver-Gilt Stocks
Boka Kotorska, 19th Century

With tapering barrels (minor pitting) each chiselled in low relief at the breech with a standing figure in contemporary costume with plumed hat and playing a cornett against a punched ground retaining some gilding, tangs each covered by a silver plate grooved for sighting and nielloed with a trellised design of quatrefoils, flat bevelled locks with rollers (one cock retaining screw incomplete), heavy full stocks each with curved butt and bulbous pommel, decorated overall with raised nielloed foliate panels against finely punched grounds, muzzle-sleeves and trigger-guards en suite, the latter each with a martial trophy on the bow, gilt trigger, false ramrods, and retaining much of their original gilding (2)
30.3 cm. barrels

Footnotes

The decoration is related to that on the stock of a flintlock gun (kariophili) of the mid-1830s in Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, p. 289, pl. 386 and frontispiece

For a very similar pair of pistols sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms & Armour..., 24 April 2013, lot 66

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