A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with two-stage barrels each engraved on the octagonal breech with a helmeted profile head, a moustached grotesque mask, monsters and foliage, silver fore-sight, and with a ring around the muzzle, engraved tangs, signed flat border engraved bevelled locks decorated with a trophy of arms on the tail (one steel-retaining screw broken), carved figured walnut full stocks (one a working replacement, some wear and bruising) inlaid with silver wire on the butts, full border engraved mounts (escutcheons replaced) including rounded side-plates engraved with two herons and a hare in a landscape, trigger-guards (one repaired), and spurred pommels engraved with a hunting trophy on each side, the caps in the form of a grotesque mask, and iron-capped wooden ramrods, by Mathieu Huart A Verdun, circa 1730-50 16¾in. (2)