A PAIR OF TURKISH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with twist three-stage barrels decorated at the breech with gold-damascened and engraved scrolling foliage, the tangs, locks, cocks and steels all decorated en suite with the barrels, the locks with rollers and the raised pans with water-drains, walnut full stocks (piece missing from below one lock) profusely inlaid with white-metal scolls, leaves and nails, white-metal mounts cast and chased with foliage in relief against a stippled ground, including side-plates, spurred pommels, trigger-guards and pierced escutcheons, and wooden false ramrods inlaid with waved white-metal lines and dots, 19th Century

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A PAIR OF TURKISH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with twist three-stage barrels decorated at the breech with gold-damascened and engraved scrolling foliage, the tangs, locks, cocks and steels all decorated en suite with the barrels, the locks with rollers and the raised pans with water-drains, walnut full stocks (piece missing from below one lock) profusely inlaid with white-metal scolls, leaves and nails, white-metal mounts cast and chased with foliage in relief against a stippled ground, including side-plates, spurred pommels, trigger-guards and pierced escutcheons, and wooden false ramrods inlaid with waved white-metal lines and dots, 19th Century
19½in. (2)

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