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A Pair Of Balkan (Souliot) 25-Bore Flintlock PistolsEpirot, 19th Century
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,750 inc. premium
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Epirot, 19th Century
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
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








