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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A 16-BORE NEAPOLITAN MIQUELET-LOCK BELT PISTOL
Late 18th Century
With two-stage barrel with turned girdle and a ring at the muzzle, and a narrow raised rib along the top of the forward section, long tang, border engraved lock with engraved details and indistinct signature along the base, full stock (fore-end repaired) inlaid with pierced brass panels engraved with interlaced scrolls of foliage, the brass fore-end cap and (later?) side-plate each engraved with scrollwork on a hatched ground, iron spur trigger-guard retaining the barrel tang and inlaid with an engraved brass band, long iron belt hook, and iron ramrod, probably original (finger-pad removed, some surface pitting)
11in. (28cm.)
Late 18th Century
With two-stage barrel with turned girdle and a ring at the muzzle, and a narrow raised rib along the top of the forward section, long tang, border engraved lock with engraved details and indistinct signature along the base, full stock (fore-end repaired) inlaid with pierced brass panels engraved with interlaced scrolls of foliage, the brass fore-end cap and (later?) side-plate each engraved with scrollwork on a hatched ground, iron spur trigger-guard retaining the barrel tang and inlaid with an engraved brass band, long iron belt hook, and iron ramrod, probably original (finger-pad removed, some surface pitting)
11in. (28cm.)