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Lot 83

A Turkish 16-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol
Late 18th/Early 19th Century

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £575 inc. premium

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A Turkish 16-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol
Late 18th/Early 19th Century

With russet barrel with sighting flat and chiselled with a foliated grotesque mask at the breech, flat bevelled lock chiselled with a foliate monster beneath the pan and with a foliated grotesque mask on the tail, chiselled cock (top jaw and screw replaced) and steel, figured full stock inlaid with brass and dark horn roundels (minor losses) and carved with scrolling foliage involving a monster on the back of the butt (broken through and repaired), steel mounts chiselled with foliage and masks en suite and comprising pierced side-plate, foliate engraved escutcheon, spurred pommel with grotesque mask cap, trigger-guard with foliate finial, ramrod-pipes, foliate engraved brass fore-end cap, and later ramrod (some wear and rust patination)
36.6 cm. barrel

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