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Lot 54*

A Pair Of Turkish 22-Bore Flintlock Gilt-Mounted Holster Pistols With Gold-Encrusted Decoration
Early 19th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of Turkish 22-Bore Flintlock Gilt-Mounted Holster Pistols With Gold-Encrusted Decoration
Early 19th Century

With three-stage barrels each encrusted with gold foliate scrollwork and two martial trophies over half their length, gold-encrusted tangs each with back-sight, rounded locks and cocks (one top jaw and screw replaced) encrusted with gold trophies within finely beaded gold borders, steels each with foliage en suite, figured full stocks (minor chips at the pommels) profusely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork enriched with engraved silver foliage and a pierced and engraved martial trophy involving cannon around each barrel tang, mounts cast and chased in relief with martial trophies and foliage, comprising shaped side-plates, spurred pommels each decorated with a plumed close-helmet on the cap, and trigger-guards, gilt muzzle-sleeves each embossed and chased with a martial trophy, turned ramrod-pipes (one missing), replacement crowned silver escutcheons each with a vacant oval between lion supporters above a portrait bust, and retaining much of their original gilding (2)
31.2 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
A.N. Kennard, B.A., F.S.A., former Assistant Master, H.M. Tower of London, Armouries
Christie's London, Fine Antique Arms And Armour..., 27 March 1996, lot 176

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