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Lot 296*

A Pair Of French 25-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Bertin A Bergerac, Circa 1700

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of French 25-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Bertin A Bergerac, Circa 1700

With plain tapering barrels each with sighting flat, plain tangs, border engraved rounded locks each signed beneath the pan and decorated with foliage, foliate engraved rounded cocks (one top jaw and screw replaced), figured moulded full stocks (butts broken through and expertly repaired), iron mounts comprising side-plates each pierced and chiselled with a foliated winged grotesque, vacant escutcheons each with foliate finials, spurred pommels each with graduated circular cap, trigger-guards each with moulded bow and chiselled foliate finial, turned swelling ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped wooden ramrods (2)
33.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Sotheby's London, The Visser Collection..., Part II, 3 June 1991, lot 74

The design of the side-plates is based on those found in the pattern book of Claude Simonin, published in Paris in 1684. See Stephen V. Grancsay, Master French Gunsmith's Designs of the XVII-XIX Centuries, 2001

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