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A Pair Of Balkan 22-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols (Ledenica)Shkodra, 19th Century
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,750 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Pair Of Balkan 22-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols (Ledenica)
Shkodra, 19th Century
Shkodra, 19th Century
With barrels each inlaid with symmetrical silver scrollwork at the ramped breech, tangs each with punched silver cover incorporating a grooved ovoidal back-sight, rounded locks each with traces of engraved decoration and with roller, full stocks each cast with foliate decoration in relief on the fore-end and opposite the lock, and with incised foliate borders, butts en suite and each with pommel deeply cast with foliage against a ground of nielloed foliage, nielloed spurs, pommel-caps (one an old replacement), beaded silver escutcheons, trigger-guards (one broken) and muzzle-sleeves cast with foliage, the latter each with fore-sight, foliate triggers (one replaced), and false ramrods (2)
32 cm. barrels
32 cm. barrels
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Provenance
Christie's London, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 27 March 1996, lot 248
For a related pair of pistols see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, p. 193, fig. 252-253








