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A PAIR OF 18-BORE NEAPOLITAN MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOLS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With tapering barrels each with three-quarter length sighting rib, the breeches with three mouldings and an oval spurious gold-lined mark 'London', one silver and one iron fore-sight, engraved tangs each with applied silver-metal back-sight and a brass back-strap extending to the pommel, shaped engraved bevelled locks with chiselled and engraved details, moulded full stocks (one chipped around the lock) inlaid with silver wire lines, scrolls, and circles, brass mounts including trigger-guards and flat oval pommels, the trigger-plates each with pierced scrollwork finial, two reeded brass bands at each fore-end, and original iron ramrods
13¼in. (33.7cm.) (2)
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With tapering barrels each with three-quarter length sighting rib, the breeches with three mouldings and an oval spurious gold-lined mark 'London', one silver and one iron fore-sight, engraved tangs each with applied silver-metal back-sight and a brass back-strap extending to the pommel, shaped engraved bevelled locks with chiselled and engraved details, moulded full stocks (one chipped around the lock) inlaid with silver wire lines, scrolls, and circles, brass mounts including trigger-guards and flat oval pommels, the trigger-plates each with pierced scrollwork finial, two reeded brass bands at each fore-end, and original iron ramrods
13¼in. (33.7cm.) (2)