A PAIR OF FLEMISH FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with twist barrels in the Turkish fashion inlaid over their entire length with silver strapwork and a crescent, stamped with spurious Spanish maker's marks and numbered 1 and 2 respectively at the breech, silver spider fore-sights, engraved tangs each with folding leaf back-sight, case-hardened flat bevelled bolted locks with rollers (one cock repaired) each signed below the blued steel spring, moulded figured walnut full stocks (minor crack in front of one lock) carved with a flowerhead and scrolls behind each barrel tang and inlaid with silver wire scrolls and waved lines (minor losses), border engraved blued steel mounts including trigger-guards with acorn finial, set triggers, and horn-tipped whalebone ramrods (partly refinished), by Emmanuel Velu of Liège, late 18th Century