A VERY FINE TURKISH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL with two-stage barrel octagonal at the breech and profusely encrusted with gold scrollwork, flowers and trophies of arms, the forward section with four panels of gold Persian verses in naskhi script, gold-encrusted tang incorporating the back-sight, gold-lined vent, bevelled lock profusely encrusted throughout with gold decoration and with gold-lined pan, walnut full stock inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and pierced silver panels engraved with foliage and flowerheads, parcel-gilt mounts including pierced scroll side-plate and escutcheon, spurred pommel cast and chased with flowers and foliage in low relief and with grotesque mask cap, and pierced muzzle-band incorporating the fore-sight, turned silver ramrod-pipes, and hollow false ramrods, late 18th Century