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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A pair of 15-bore Turkish flintlock holster pistols
Late 18th century
With tapering barrels each chiselled with foliage at the breech and with spurious maker's stamp, the tangs overlaid with engraved white-metal, engraved bevelled locks each with chiselled tail (one top jaw and screw missing), carved walnut full stocks, iron and silver mounts including embossed silver spurred pommels, embossed silver barrel bands and muzzle sleeves, the latter incorporating false ramrods (one incomplete), the butts inlaid with silver and with nielloed silver escutcheons decorated with corals and filigree work
20¾in. (52.8cm.) (2)
Late 18th century
With tapering barrels each chiselled with foliage at the breech and with spurious maker's stamp, the tangs overlaid with engraved white-metal, engraved bevelled locks each with chiselled tail (one top jaw and screw missing), carved walnut full stocks, iron and silver mounts including embossed silver spurred pommels, embossed silver barrel bands and muzzle sleeves, the latter incorporating false ramrods (one incomplete), the butts inlaid with silver and with nielloed silver escutcheons decorated with corals and filigree work
20¾in. (52.8cm.) (2)