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BY PIETRO BRUNI, CIRCA 1796-99
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A PAIR OF MILANESE 22-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOLS
BY PIETRO BRUNI, CIRCA 1796-99
With two-stage swamped sighted barrels each with silver spider fore-sight, chiselled girdle, and struck with a gold-lined maker's mark on the octagonal breech-section, engraved iron tangs, scroll engraved signed flat bevelled locks each with stepped-tail, moulded figured walnut full stocks, cast and chased silver mounts including solid side-plates, contemporary iron belt hooks, and later horn-tipped ramrods (iron parts with some wear and corrosion marking, one steel-spring replaced)
8in. (20.5cm.) barrels (2)
BY PIETRO BRUNI, CIRCA 1796-99
With two-stage swamped sighted barrels each with silver spider fore-sight, chiselled girdle, and struck with a gold-lined maker's mark on the octagonal breech-section, engraved iron tangs, scroll engraved signed flat bevelled locks each with stepped-tail, moulded figured walnut full stocks, cast and chased silver mounts including solid side-plates, contemporary iron belt hooks, and later horn-tipped ramrods (iron parts with some wear and corrosion marking, one steel-spring replaced)
8in. (20.5cm.) barrels (2)