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Lot 58*
A Pair Of Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols19th Century, Probably Prizren
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,750 inc. premium
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19th Century, Probably Prizren
19th Century, Probably Prizren
With barrels each engraved with traces of a spurious inscription along the sighting flat and with foliage (worn) at the breech, tangs en suite, flat bevelled lock and cocks lightly engraved with foliage, wooden full stocks covered in silver panels secured by nails and embossed in low relief with symmetrical scrolling foliage within beaded borders, barrel bands and muzzle-sleeves en suite, curved butts with spurred bulbous pommels cast and chased with foliage, domed pommel-caps each with button terminal, grips engraved with a checkerboard design, trigger-guards each with foliage on the bow and pierced foliate finial, and false ramrods (2)
33.3 cm. barrels
33.3 cm. barrels
Footnotes
For related pistols see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, p. 192, figs. 249 and 250-251








