A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with blued swamped octagonal sighted barrels polygroove rifled, signed in gold and with punched and gilt decoration at the muzzle and breech, engraved tangs, gilt vents, flat locks with rollers and semi-rainproof pans (one cock pitted, the other missing), lightly carved figured walnut full stocks, silver mounts engraved in the Neo-classical taste (one trigger-guard split), chequered butts, the pommel-caps engraved with a Medusa mask, blued triggers, and whalebone ramrods (one replaced), by P. Greverath à Dick, early 19th Century

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A PAIR OF GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with blued swamped octagonal sighted barrels polygroove rifled, signed in gold and with punched and gilt decoration at the muzzle and breech, engraved tangs, gilt vents, flat locks with rollers and semi-rainproof pans (one cock pitted, the other missing), lightly carved figured walnut full stocks, silver mounts engraved in the Neo-classical taste (one trigger-guard split), chequered butts, the pommel-caps engraved with a Medusa mask, blued triggers, and whalebone ramrods (one replaced), by P. Greverath à Dick, early 19th Century
12¼in. [E.543, S.37,38] (2)

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