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Lot 58*

A Pair Of Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
19th Century, Probably Prizren

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
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

Footnotes

For related pistols see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, p. 192, figs. 249 and 250-251

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