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Lot 87

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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A Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol (Ledenica) With Silver Stock
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

Footnotes

For other examples of the type see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, pp.97-99, figs. 98-104

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