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A Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol (Ledenica) With Silver Stock Boka Kotorska, 19th Century
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,200 - £1,500
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Boka Kotorska, 19th Century
Boka Kotorska, 19th Century
The barrel with incised marks towards the breech and with four brass-lined barrelsmith's marks, 'HG' crowned and a lion rampant in an oval, tang now covered with a lightly engraved plate, flat bevelled lock and cock both lightly engraved with scrollwork, brass pan and roller, heavy full stock with curved butt cast and chased overall in relief with flowering foliage involving a trophy of arms on the fore-stock and on the back of the butt, all within fluted ribbons, against finely punched grounds and with a bird on each side of the butt, spirally-fluted pommel with a border of rocailles and grotesque mask cap, the spurs with ribboned flower-heads, trigger-guard and muzzle-sleeve decorated en suite, false ramrod, and retaining some original gilding
30.3 cm. barrel
30.3 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For other examples of the type see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, pp.97-99, figs. 98-104








