A PAIR OF SPANISH MADRID-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with reblued sighted barrels inlaid with silver scrollwork at the muzzle and breech and with chiselled girdle between, silver fore-sights, and two gold-lined maker's stamps of Pedro Esteva of Barcelona (Neue Støckel 328, 329), gold-lined vents, tangs engraved with rococo ornament, flat bevelled locks cut with shells and scrolls in low relief on a gilt fishroe ground and with gold-lined maker's stamp of Joseph Deop of Ripoll (Neue Støckel 236), moulded artificially figured full stocks, gilt-bronze mounts in the Bohemian taste cast and chased in relief with scenes of the chase on a punched ground and including pierced side-plates incorporating a portrait bust, spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, and vacant escutcheons with coronet above, the trigger-guards each with the figure of Diana, octagonal ramrod-pipes, and original horn-tipped whalebone ramrods, late 18th Century