A Fine Pair Of 60-Bore Flintlock Belt Pistols
Signed Gio. Botti, early 18th Century
With sighted two-stage barrels each with stamped signature 'Lazarino Cominazzo' on the fluted octagonal breech, plain tangs each with folding back-sight, signed rounded locks, the tails, cocks and steels each chiselled in relief on a punched ground in the Brescian manner, moulded figured walnut full stocks carved with scrolls near the ramrod-entry, gilt-bronze mounts cast and chased in relief in the Brescian manner, solid side-plates, spurred pommels each with oval cap bearing the owner's arms and cypher, short iron belt hooks, gilt-bronze fore-end caps, single gilt-bronze ramrod-pipes, and original ramrods each with gilt-bronze tip, in virtually unused condition throughout
14in. (35.6cm.) (2)
A Fine Pair Of 60-Bore Flintlock Belt Pistols
Signed Gio. Botti, early 18th Century
With sighted two-stage barrels each with stamped signature 'Lazarino Cominazzo' on the fluted octagonal breech, plain tangs each with folding back-sight, signed rounded locks, the tails, cocks and steels each chiselled in relief on a punched ground in the Brescian manner, moulded figured walnut full stocks carved with scrolls near the ramrod-entry, gilt-bronze mounts cast and chased in relief in the Brescian manner, solid side-plates, spurred pommels each with oval cap bearing the owner's arms and cypher, short iron belt hooks, gilt-bronze fore-end caps, single gilt-bronze ramrod-pipes, and original ramrods each with gilt-bronze tip, in virtually unused condition throughout
14in. (35.6cm.) (2)
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