A FINE PAIR OF 60-BORE FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOLS

SIGNED GIO. BOTTI, CIRCA 1730

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A FINE PAIR OF 60-BORE FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOLS
Signed Gio. Botti, circa 1730
With sighted two-stage barrels each with stamped signature 'Lazarino Cominazzo' on the fluted octagonal breech, plain tangs each with folding back-sight, signed rounded locks each struck on the inside with a locksmith's mark, 'CF' crowned, the tails, cocks, and steels each chiselled in relief on a punched ground in the Bresican manner, moulded figured walnut full stocks (fore-ends with minor bruising) carved with scrolls near the ramrod-entry, gilt-bronze mounts cast and chased in relief in the Brescian manner, spurred pommels each with oval cap charged with owner's arms and cypher 'EA', short blued iron belt hooks, blued screws and triggers, gilt-bronze fore-end caps, single gilt-bronze ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods each with gilt-bronze tip, in virtually unused condition
14¼in. (36.2cm.) (2)

Provenance

The Gewehrkammer of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar at Schloß Ettersburg, Saxony

Lot Essay

The arms and cypher are those of Ernst August I (reg. 1728-1748) The armoury contained a number of pairs of pistols of this type (originally belonging to garnitures), but not all bear the owner's arms and cypher. An almost identical pair was sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection in these Rooms, 9 November 2000, lot 248

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