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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF ITALIAN 28-BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOLS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
With two-stage swamped barrels each with turned girdle and inlaid with silver foliage on the octagonal breech-sections, engraved tangs, rounded locks each chiselled with foliage on the tail and with traces of a signature beneath the pan, figured walnut full stocks each inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and small panels of flower-heads around the barrel-tang, iron mounts chiselled with foliage, engraved silver escutcheons, and horn-tipped ramrods (iron parts cleaned bright, minor discolouration, minor defects to stocks)
6in. (15.2cm.) barrels (2)
LATE 18TH CENTURY
With two-stage swamped barrels each with turned girdle and inlaid with silver foliage on the octagonal breech-sections, engraved tangs, rounded locks each chiselled with foliage on the tail and with traces of a signature beneath the pan, figured walnut full stocks each inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and small panels of flower-heads around the barrel-tang, iron mounts chiselled with foliage, engraved silver escutcheons, and horn-tipped ramrods (iron parts cleaned bright, minor discolouration, minor defects to stocks)
6in. (15.2cm.) barrels (2)