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Lot 56*

A Pair Of Balkan (Souliot) 25-Bore Flintlock Pistols
Epirot, 19th Century

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of Balkan (Souliot) 25-Bore Flintlock Pistols
Epirot, 19th Century

With plain barrels, tangs each covered by a large silver-gilt plate cast and pierced with foliage and with scallop shell terminal, lightly engraved rounded locks, silver stocks with slightly down bent tapering butts cast and chased overall in relief with foliage highlighted with niello, bulbous pommels and trigger-guards en suite, the former each with foliate terminal, figured fore-stocks with punched decorated and each inlaid with small roundels of brass and dark horn, gilt foliate triggers, and barrel bands, muzzle-sleeves and false ramrods all en suite with the butts (2)
30 cm. and 30.4 cm. barrels

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Provenance
Christie's London, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 27 March 1996, lot 249

See Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, pp. 230-232, figs. 286-294

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