A PAIR OF BALKAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with iron barrels each chiselled along its upper surface in low relief with birds, foliage and standing human figures , one smoking a pipe, each breech with a horseman, tangs and rounded locks (one action defective) decorated en suite, engraved brass pans and steel-spring covers, moulded walnut full stocks (minor damage) partially carved with foliage, iron mounts chiselled and engraved with foliage including pierced side-plates, spurred pommels, and trigger-guards, engraved iron escutcheons, and false ramrods, early 19th Century, possibly Greek

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A PAIR OF BALKAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with iron barrels each chiselled along its upper surface in low relief with birds, foliage and standing human figures , one smoking a pipe, each breech with a horseman, tangs and rounded locks (one action defective) decorated en suite, engraved brass pans and steel-spring covers, moulded walnut full stocks (minor damage) partially carved with foliage, iron mounts chiselled and engraved with foliage including pierced side-plates, spurred pommels, and trigger-guards, engraved iron escutcheons, and false ramrods, early 19th Century, possibly Greek
21½in. (2)

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