SIGNED GIO. BOTTI, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A Fine Pair Of 60-Bore Flintlock Belt Pistols
Signed Gio. Botti, early 18th Century
With sighted two-stage barrels each with stamped signature 'Lazarino Cominazzo' on the fluted octagonal breech, plain tangs each with folding back-sight, signed rounded locks, the tails, cocks and steels each chiselled in relief on a punched ground in the Brescian manner, moulded figured walnut full stocks carved with scrolls near the ramrod-entry, gilt-bronze mounts cast and chased in relief in the Brescian manner, solid side-plates, spurred pommels each with oval cap bearing the owner's arms and cypher, short iron belt hooks, gilt-bronze fore-end caps, single gilt-bronze ramrod-pipes, and original ramrods each with gilt-bronze tip, in virtually unused condition throughout
14in. (35.6cm.) (2)

Provenance

(Probably) Major Th. Jakobsson (one pistol bears an old brass collection tag)
The arms and cypher are those of Ernst August 1, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar (reg. 1728-1748)

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Cf. the Botti carbine, lot 126, and the garniture sold by Sotheby & Co., London, 17 December 1990, lot 22

Two pairs of pistols from the George F. Harding Collection were sold by Sotherby & Co., New York, 1 June 1991, lots 463-4

See J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. II, pp. 134-5

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