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BY FRIEDRICH JAKOB BOSLER A DARMSTADT, CIRCA 1750
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A Pair Of 32-Bore German Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Friedrich Jakob Bosler A Darmstadt, circa 1750
With three-stage barrels each with silver fore-sight, the breech sections fluted octagonal changing to sixteen-sided and stamped 'Lazarino Cominazzo', silver-covered tangs each engraved with a grotesque mask, signed flat bevelled locks each engraved with rococo ornament on the stepped tail and each with blued screws, top jaw, pan, and steel-spring, moulded figured walnut full stocks each carved in relief with rococo ornament and a grotesque mask behind the barrel tang, full lightly engraved silver mounts including solid side-plates each engraved with a martial trophy, vacant escutcheons engraved with a trophy of arms and with coronet above, silver fore-end caps and ramrod-pipes, blued triggers and trigger-plates, and original silver-tipped ramrods, in fine condition throughout
18in. (45.7cm.) (2)
By Friedrich Jakob Bosler A Darmstadt, circa 1750
With three-stage barrels each with silver fore-sight, the breech sections fluted octagonal changing to sixteen-sided and stamped 'Lazarino Cominazzo', silver-covered tangs each engraved with a grotesque mask, signed flat bevelled locks each engraved with rococo ornament on the stepped tail and each with blued screws, top jaw, pan, and steel-spring, moulded figured walnut full stocks each carved in relief with rococo ornament and a grotesque mask behind the barrel tang, full lightly engraved silver mounts including solid side-plates each engraved with a martial trophy, vacant escutcheons engraved with a trophy of arms and with coronet above, silver fore-end caps and ramrod-pipes, blued triggers and trigger-plates, and original silver-tipped ramrods, in fine condition throughout
18in. (45.7cm.) (2)
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