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A PAIR OF 22-BORE GILT-MOUNTED TURKISH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With three-stage barrels encrusted with gold scrollwork and martial trophies, gold-encrusted tang incorporating the back-sight, rounded locks and cocks also with gold-encrusted decoration, gold-encrusted pans and steels, walnut full stocks profusely inlaid with scrollwork and foliage in silver and with a pierced and engraved silver panel in the form of a martial trophy at each barrel tang, gilt white-metal mounts cast and chased in relief with trophies of arms, flowers and foliage, including spurred pummels each with a plumed helmet on the cap, cast and chased gilt muzzle-bands each with attached false ramrod (one front pipe missing), and later brass escutcheons (one top jaw and screw replaced, one silver panel missing)
19in. (48.2cm.) (2)
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With three-stage barrels encrusted with gold scrollwork and martial trophies, gold-encrusted tang incorporating the back-sight, rounded locks and cocks also with gold-encrusted decoration, gold-encrusted pans and steels, walnut full stocks profusely inlaid with scrollwork and foliage in silver and with a pierced and engraved silver panel in the form of a martial trophy at each barrel tang, gilt white-metal mounts cast and chased in relief with trophies of arms, flowers and foliage, including spurred pummels each with a plumed helmet on the cap, cast and chased gilt muzzle-bands each with attached false ramrod (one front pipe missing), and later brass escutcheons (one top jaw and screw replaced, one silver panel missing)
19in. (48.2cm.) (2)