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FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY
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A pair of Austrian or German flintlock pistols
First half of the 18th Century
With sighted barrels, flat bevelled locks engraved with foliage against a stippled ground, moulded figured walnut full stocks lightly carved with foliage around each barrel tang, brass mounts decorated en suite with the locks including pierced side-plates (one incomplete) and trigger-guards each incorporating a portrait medallion, vacant escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped ramrods
15½in. (39.4cm.) (2)
First half of the 18th Century
With sighted barrels, flat bevelled locks engraved with foliage against a stippled ground, moulded figured walnut full stocks lightly carved with foliage around each barrel tang, brass mounts decorated en suite with the locks including pierced side-plates (one incomplete) and trigger-guards each incorporating a portrait medallion, vacant escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped ramrods
15½in. (39.4cm.) (2)