EACH 19TH CENTURY
Details
A 15-Bore Balkan (Albanian ?) Silver-Mounted Flintlock Gun, And A 14-Bore Albanian Miquelet-Lock Gun
Each 19th Century
The first with two-stage sighted barrel, rounded lock stamped with spurious signature 'Giulio Rossi a Gardone', walnut three-quarter stock partly overlaid with silver-gilt panels cast and chased with flowers and foliage in low relief on a punched ground, mounts and barrel bands en suite, white metal sling mounts, and iron ramrod (trigger-guard incomplete, gilding rubbed, iron parts with some pitting throughout); the second with three-stage sighted barrel retained by six engraved brass barrel bands, engraved tang and lock, wooden three-quarter stock of characteristic form entirely covered in scroll engraved iron and brass panels interspersed with small rectangular horn and mother-of-pearl plaques, iron sling mounts, and original iron ramrod (iron parts with minor pitting and discolouration)
44¼in. (112.5cm.) and 47¼in. (120cm.) barrels (2)
Each 19th Century
The first with two-stage sighted barrel, rounded lock stamped with spurious signature 'Giulio Rossi a Gardone', walnut three-quarter stock partly overlaid with silver-gilt panels cast and chased with flowers and foliage in low relief on a punched ground, mounts and barrel bands en suite, white metal sling mounts, and iron ramrod (trigger-guard incomplete, gilding rubbed, iron parts with some pitting throughout); the second with three-stage sighted barrel retained by six engraved brass barrel bands, engraved tang and lock, wooden three-quarter stock of characteristic form entirely covered in scroll engraved iron and brass panels interspersed with small rectangular horn and mother-of-pearl plaques, iron sling mounts, and original iron ramrod (iron parts with minor pitting and discolouration)
44¼in. (112.5cm.) and 47¼in. (120cm.) barrels (2)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.