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LATE 18TH CENTURY AND MID-18TH CENTURY
Details
A 38-bore French silver-mounted flintlock pocket pistol, and an 80-bore percussion pocket pistol, probably Liège
Late 18th century and mid-18th century
The first with two-stage barrel with ribbed octagonal breech, rounded lock, moulded walnut half-stock, silver mounts cast and chased with trophies of arms in relief, and silver eagle-head butt-cap, the butt inlaid with silver wire scrollwork (ramrod missing); the second converted from flintlock, with rifled cannon barrel octagonal at the breech, bevelled lock (one side-nail missing), moulded half-stock (chipped), and brass-mounts engraved with rococo ornament
6½in. (16.5cm.) and 7in. (17.8cm.) (2)
Late 18th century and mid-18th century
The first with two-stage barrel with ribbed octagonal breech, rounded lock, moulded walnut half-stock, silver mounts cast and chased with trophies of arms in relief, and silver eagle-head butt-cap, the butt inlaid with silver wire scrollwork (ramrod missing); the second converted from flintlock, with rifled cannon barrel octagonal at the breech, bevelled lock (one side-nail missing), moulded half-stock (chipped), and brass-mounts engraved with rococo ornament
6½in. (16.5cm.) and 7in. (17.8cm.) (2)