LATE 18TH CENTURY
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An 18-Bore Balkan Flintlock Holster Pistol
Late 18th Century
With two-stage barrel, the breech chiselled with foliage and decorated with a gold-damascened panel of calligraphy and two panels of foliage, gold-damascened raised sighting flat and tang en suite, flat bevelled lock (probably associated) engraved with foliage (mechanism defective), full stock entirely covered in parcel-gilt panels cast and chased in relief, the butt bound with wire, and false ramrod (iron parts with some surface rust)
20in. (52.7cm.)
Late 18th Century
With two-stage barrel, the breech chiselled with foliage and decorated with a gold-damascened panel of calligraphy and two panels of foliage, gold-damascened raised sighting flat and tang en suite, flat bevelled lock (probably associated) engraved with foliage (mechanism defective), full stock entirely covered in parcel-gilt panels cast and chased in relief, the butt bound with wire, and false ramrod (iron parts with some surface rust)
20in. (52.7cm.)