A PAIR OF BRESCIAN FLINTLOCK LONG HOLSTER PISTOLS with sighted three-stage barrels numbered 1 and 2 respectively in silver at the breech and each with silver-inlaid 'Lazarino Cominazzo' signature, plain long tangs, flat bevelled locks signed on the lower border and each engraved with berries and foliage in front of the stepped rounded end with bud rear finial, pierced and engraved flat cocks (one repaired) retained by a bolt (one replaced) secured by an internal nut, the steels and steel-springs each with chiselled details, figured walnut full stocks each stamped 'Bortol (sic) Bonfadino' on the underside in front of the trigger-guard, iron mounts chiselled in relief with scrollwork, foliage and berries, and with a serpent on the short spur of each flattened pommel, turned single ramrod-pipes (one loose), pierced triggers, horn fore-end caps, and wooden ramrods (one shortened) each with engraved iron tip, by Pietro Alzano in Brescia, third quarter of the 17th Century

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A PAIR OF BRESCIAN FLINTLOCK LONG HOLSTER PISTOLS with sighted three-stage barrels numbered 1 and 2 respectively in silver at the breech and each with silver-inlaid 'Lazarino Cominazzo' signature, plain long tangs, flat bevelled locks signed on the lower border and each engraved with berries and foliage in front of the stepped rounded end with bud rear finial, pierced and engraved flat cocks (one repaired) retained by a bolt (one replaced) secured by an internal nut, the steels and steel-springs each with chiselled details, figured walnut full stocks each stamped 'Bortol (sic) Bonfadino' on the underside in front of the trigger-guard, iron mounts chiselled in relief with scrollwork, foliage and berries, and with a serpent on the short spur of each flattened pommel, turned single ramrod-pipes (one loose), pierced triggers, horn fore-end caps, and wooden ramrods (one shortened) each with engraved iron tip, by Pietro Alzano in Brescia, third quarter of the 17th Century
25½in. (2)

Lot Essay

These pistols were apparently modernised, in the 18th Century, probably in Germany, by the addition of new barrels and fore-end tips. Der Neue Støckel records Bartolomeo Bonfadino in Brescia between 1632 and 1685

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