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BY BAUCHERON PIRMET À PARIS, CIRCA 1830
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A Pair Of 20-Bore French Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistols For The Turkish Market
By Baucheron Pirmet à Paris, circa 1830
With swamped blued and gilt two-stage barrels lightly belled at the muzzle and decorated with scrollwork, a trophy of arms, a panel enclosing stars and a crescent, and a sunburst around each fore-sight, signed engraved rounded locks each with roller and gilt pan with water-drains (cocks repaired), moulded walnut full stocks (minor defects) inlaid with engraved silver panels, silver wire scrolls, and a crown between laurel branches (some losses), silver-gilt mounts cast and chased in high relief with trophies of arms, crescents, and cornucopiae, and original silver-tipped bone ramrods (one ramrod-pipe incomplete, one trigger-guard repaired), St. Etienne proof marks, French provincial silver hallmarks, maker's mark CC
18¼in (46.4cm.) (2)
By Baucheron Pirmet à Paris, circa 1830
With swamped blued and gilt two-stage barrels lightly belled at the muzzle and decorated with scrollwork, a trophy of arms, a panel enclosing stars and a crescent, and a sunburst around each fore-sight, signed engraved rounded locks each with roller and gilt pan with water-drains (cocks repaired), moulded walnut full stocks (minor defects) inlaid with engraved silver panels, silver wire scrolls, and a crown between laurel branches (some losses), silver-gilt mounts cast and chased in high relief with trophies of arms, crescents, and cornucopiae, and original silver-tipped bone ramrods (one ramrod-pipe incomplete, one trigger-guard repaired), St. Etienne proof marks, French provincial silver hallmarks, maker's mark CC
18¼in (46.4cm.) (2)
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