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Lot 55*

A Pair Of Balkan 22-Bore Miquelet-Lock Pistols (Celina or Ledenica)
Boka Kotorska Or Northern Albanian, 19th Century

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,125 inc. premium

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A Pair Of Balkan 22-Bore Miquelet-Lock Pistols (Celina or Ledenica)
Boka Kotorska Or Northern Albanian, 19th Century

With barrels each with sighting flat and chiselled decoration at the breech, characteristic lightly engraved locks, white-metal full stocks with curved butts and bulbous pommels cast and chased overall with designs of foliage in relief, tang covers, trigger-guards and pierced muzzle-sleeves (one repaired) all en suite, and false ramrods (2)
33.7 cm. barrels

Footnotes

For a similar pair of pistols in their holster with ammunition pouch and sold in these Rooms see Eastern Arms & Armour From the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection, 29 April 2015, lot 271

See also Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, pp. 92-93, figs. 83-90

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