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A Fine Pair Of French 25-Bore Flintlock D.B. Silver-Mounted PistolsBy Paul Montmain Fils, Second Quarter Of The 18th Century
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,400 inc. premium
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A Fine Pair Of French 25-Bore Flintlock D.B. Silver-Mounted Pistols
By Paul Montmain Fils, Second Quarter Of The 18th Century
By Paul Montmain Fils, Second Quarter Of The 18th Century
With russet barrels retaining traces of original blueing and damascened with gold foliage and rococo ornament around the silver fore-sights and along the part octagonal breeches, the latter with gold line borders, and with gilt lines around the muzzles and at the breeches, silver ribs chased with scallop shells between gilt foliage and each carrying the fore-sight, engraved tangs grooved for sighting, gilt touch-holes, signed border engraved rounded locks (minor wear and rust patination), rounded cocks with chiselled and gilt retaining screws, steels each chiselled with a dolphin and a mustachioed grotesque mask, figured half-stocks (old in-fills and minor damage) with moulded borders and carved with foliage in low relief on each fore-end and behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising vacant escutcheons each centred on rocailles and foliage, spurred pommels with a Classical trophy of arms against a finely punched ground on both sides, rounded pommel-caps each with a portrait medallion of a Turk on a punched ground within an engraved border of foliage and scallop shells, trigger-guards each with scallop-shaped finial and engraved raised ovoidal panel on the bow, baluster rear ramrod-pipes each with foliate terminal and secured by a screw, and later ramrods (2)
21.5 cm. barrels
21.5 cm. barrels
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Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 28 November 2012, lot 324
Paul Montmain is recorded as working in St. Etienne between 1710 and 1745




