A SPANISH BALL-BUTTED MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOL with two-stage barrel tuned at the muzzle and engraved with stylised flowers, scrolling foliage and bird-heads, patilla lock with fluted bridle to the cock and pan (the latter replaced), later steel, walnut full stock inlaid with iron panels pierced and engraved with symmetrical designs of scrollwork, iron spurred trigger-guard securing the barrel tang, and iron ramrod, late 17th Century, almost certainly Ripoll

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A SPANISH BALL-BUTTED MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOL with two-stage barrel tuned at the muzzle and engraved with stylised flowers, scrolling foliage and bird-heads, patilla lock with fluted bridle to the cock and pan (the latter replaced), later steel, walnut full stock inlaid with iron panels pierced and engraved with symmetrical designs of scrollwork, iron spurred trigger-guard securing the barrel tang, and iron ramrod, late 17th Century, almost certainly Ripoll
12¾in. (32½cm.)

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