A PAIR OF LIEGE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with sighted barrels each with long brass sighting rib, the breeches overlaid with brass panels, some with punched decoration, the tangs overlaid with an engraved brass plate, engraved bevelled brass locks inscribed 'A Paris' and signed below the steel-spring (one cock replaced, one action defective), carved and moulded walnut full stocks, full brass mounts cast and chased with foliage and portrait medallions, spurred pommels, and wooden ramrods (one replaced, worn overall, one pistol broken through at the lock), signed P. Joset, mid-18th Century; and a Turkish flintlock holster pistol, the barrel chiselled at the breech and retained by two embossed white-metal bands, engraved bevelled lock, wooden full stock inlaid overall with silver wire scrolls and trefoils, full white-metal mounts cast and chased with foliage, embossed white-metal sleeve around the muzzle, and false ramrod, 19th Century

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A PAIR OF LIEGE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with sighted barrels each with long brass sighting rib, the breeches overlaid with brass panels, some with punched decoration, the tangs overlaid with an engraved brass plate, engraved bevelled brass locks inscribed 'A Paris' and signed below the steel-spring (one cock replaced, one action defective), carved and moulded walnut full stocks, full brass mounts cast and chased with foliage and portrait medallions, spurred pommels, and wooden ramrods (one replaced, worn overall, one pistol broken through at the lock), signed P. Joset, mid-18th Century; and a Turkish flintlock holster pistol, the barrel chiselled at the breech and retained by two embossed white-metal bands, engraved bevelled lock, wooden full stock inlaid overall with silver wire scrolls and trefoils, full white-metal mounts cast and chased with foliage, embossed white-metal sleeve around the muzzle, and false ramrod, 19th Century
20½in. and 20¾in. (3)

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A Jean Pierre Joset is recorded in Liège circa 1736

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