A FINE PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with browned barrels in two stages with chiselled girdle between, octagonal breeches each with three gold lines, gold-lined maker's stamp (gold incomplete on one) and four further gold-filled marks, silver spider fore-sights, gold vents, tangs engraved with rococo ornament and flowerheads, signed flat locks each with safety-catch, large roller and gold-lined pan and steel, engraved en suite with the barrel tangs (one cock repaired, the other replaced), highly figured walnut full stocks carved with a shell behind the barrel tangs, full mounts cast and chased with rococo ornament and flowerheads in relief, including spurred pommels with grotesque mask cap, elaborate pierced trophy of arms side-plates and escutcheons, the latter engraved with owner's crest, trigger-guards with scallop-shell finial, and engraved barrel-bolt escutcheons, and original silver-tipped whalebone ramrods: in later lined and fitted oak case with some accessories including leather-covered two-way flask, by Edward Bate, London, London silver hallmarks for 1771, maker's mark perhaps of John King 14¼in.