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A PAIR OF FLEMISH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with three-stage barrels fluted and chiselled with acanthus foliage in low relief at the breech, the tangs engraved with foliage and a female portrait bust, signed rounded locks each with moulded border and engraved with foliage and a satantic demi-figure on the tail (cocks repaired), figured burr walnut full stocks (cracked, chipped, and repaired, one fore-end incomplete), and iron mounts including pierced and chiselled side-plates involving monster-heads, engraved spurred pommels chiselled with scrolls and foliage in low relief (escutcheons removed), turned ramrod-pipes (one loose), and one original iron-capped ramrod (the other replaced), by I. Depon, circa 1700
20in. [E.526, S.1,2] (2)
20in. [E.526, S.1,2] (2)