A LIEGE FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS-PISTOL with twist two-stage barrel with turned girdle and elliptical muzzle, rounded lock signed beneath the steel-spring and with safety-catch and roller, figured walnut full stock (butt broken) inlaid with silver wire (minor losses) and carved with foliage in relief behind the barrel tang and rear ramrod-pipe, border engraved iron mounts, vacant silver escutcheon, and original horn-tipped ramrod, by Berleur, late 18th Century; a German percussion pistol, converted from flintlock, with rifled octagonal sighted barrel inlaid with five silver-lined marks at the breech, rounded lock, later full stock, and later ramrod, early 19th Century; a cast brass pommel-cap from a flintlock pistol, early 18th Century; and a German sabre with curved single-edged blade lightly etched with olive branches, a sun in splendour, a moon, stars and other devices, and along the back-edge with the maker's name 'Münch', the cast brass mameluke hilt with vertically recurved quillons, decorated with rosettes and engraved lines, and reeded pistol grip with lion's head pommel, in original brass-mounted shagreen-covered wooden scabbard with with two rings for suspension, early 19th Century The first 12½in., the last 29¾in. blade (4)

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A LIEGE FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS-PISTOL with twist two-stage barrel with turned girdle and elliptical muzzle, rounded lock signed beneath the steel-spring and with safety-catch and roller, figured walnut full stock (butt broken) inlaid with silver wire (minor losses) and carved with foliage in relief behind the barrel tang and rear ramrod-pipe, border engraved iron mounts, vacant silver escutcheon, and original horn-tipped ramrod, by Berleur, late 18th Century; a German percussion pistol, converted from flintlock, with rifled octagonal sighted barrel inlaid with five silver-lined marks at the breech, rounded lock, later full stock, and later ramrod, early 19th Century; a cast brass pommel-cap from a flintlock pistol, early 18th Century; and a German sabre with curved single-edged blade lightly etched with olive branches, a sun in splendour, a moon, stars and other devices, and along the back-edge with the maker's name 'Münch', the cast brass mameluke hilt with vertically recurved quillons, decorated with rosettes and engraved lines, and reeded pistol grip with lion's head pommel, in original brass-mounted shagreen-covered wooden scabbard with with two rings for suspension, early 19th Century
The first 12½in., the last 29¾in. blade (4)

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