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ALL 19TH CENTURY
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Two 18-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' miquelet-lock pistols, and a 20-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' flintlock pistol
All 19th century
The first with tapering barrel inlaid with silver scrollwork at the breech, lightly engraved lock struck with a mark, wooden full stock carved with scrollwork over most of its length and decorated with silver panels cast and chased with scrollwork in relief, silver spurred pommel, barrel band and muzzle band en suite, the first and last each heightened with niello, and engraved iron trigger-guard (ramrod missing); the second with engraved brass stock and barrel bands (ramrod missing, trigger-guard loose); the third with wooden full stock inlaid with pierced and engraved brass panels set with corals (mostly missing), and with engraved brass mounts (ramrod missing)
20½in. (52.1cm.) to 18in. (45.7cm.) (3)
All 19th century
The first with tapering barrel inlaid with silver scrollwork at the breech, lightly engraved lock struck with a mark, wooden full stock carved with scrollwork over most of its length and decorated with silver panels cast and chased with scrollwork in relief, silver spurred pommel, barrel band and muzzle band en suite, the first and last each heightened with niello, and engraved iron trigger-guard (ramrod missing); the second with engraved brass stock and barrel bands (ramrod missing, trigger-guard loose); the third with wooden full stock inlaid with pierced and engraved brass panels set with corals (mostly missing), and with engraved brass mounts (ramrod missing)
20½in. (52.1cm.) to 18in. (45.7cm.) (3)