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A 25-BORE AUSTRIAN OR BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL
BY TOBIAS BERG, KEISMARCK(?), CIRCA 1750
With etched twist barrel in the Turkish manner with encrusted silver and gold decoration throughout its length, and silver fore-sight, the breech with two stamps, the larger with the maker's name in illegible Arabic script, silver-damascened tang, signed flat bevelled lock engraved with a reclining sportsman and his dog, and on the tail with a dead stag and boar, the pan with water drain and chiselled fence (the steel probably a working replacement), moulded lightly carved full stock (minor cracks), full gilt-bronze mounts (gilding worn) cast and chased with rococo decoration in relief against a punched ground and including an apron at the barrel tang, the side-plate involving two horsemen and a martial trophy, and the butt-cap a Classical figure, probably Mars, gilt-brass fore-end cap and ramrod-pipes, and brass-tipped ramrod (some wear throughout)
16in. (40.6cm.)
