A PAIR OF BALKAN FLINTLOCK PISTOLS, the barrels chiselled and engraved with foliage at the breech, engraved flat bevelled locks in the English taste each with spurious signature, rainproof pan and roller, gilt-metal full stocks and bulbous pommels cast and chased in low relief against a granular ground with strapwork and foliage involving trophies of arms, birds, nielloed panels of foliage, and a winged dragon opposite each lock, scroll trigger-guards each decorated with a stylised Madusa-head on the bow, gilt-triggers, a sleeve around each muzzle en suite with the stocks, and false ramrods, 19th Century

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A PAIR OF BALKAN FLINTLOCK PISTOLS, the barrels chiselled and engraved with foliage at the breech, engraved flat bevelled locks in the English taste each with spurious signature, rainproof pan and roller, gilt-metal full stocks and bulbous pommels cast and chased in low relief against a granular ground with strapwork and foliage involving trophies of arms, birds, nielloed panels of foliage, and a winged dragon opposite each lock, scroll trigger-guards each decorated with a stylised Madusa-head on the bow, gilt-triggers, a sleeve around each muzzle en suite with the stocks, and false ramrods, 19th Century
20in. (2)

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