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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A FINE .65 LIÈGE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL MADE FOR NEAR EASTERN PRESENTATION
Early 19th Century
With two-stage barrel chiselled and gilt with a symmetrical design of flowers and foliage on the octagonal breech and engraved with a gilt trophy of arms beyond, with two lines of Arabic calligraphy ('Your time has come'), the forward section engraved with a gilt spiral design of plain bands and branches of foliage, all on a blued ground, rounded lock chiselled in relief with foliage, a turban and a cornucopia, all on a punched gilt ground (cock replaced), button safety-catch, roller, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, figured walnut full stock profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls and swags (some losses) enriched on the butt with small gold insets, and studded with lines of silver tacks (some missing), chequered fore-end, iron mounts chiselled in relief against a punched gilt ground, pierced ramrod-pipes, and iron-mounted wooden ramrod, Liège proof
22in.
Early 19th Century
With two-stage barrel chiselled and gilt with a symmetrical design of flowers and foliage on the octagonal breech and engraved with a gilt trophy of arms beyond, with two lines of Arabic calligraphy ('Your time has come'), the forward section engraved with a gilt spiral design of plain bands and branches of foliage, all on a blued ground, rounded lock chiselled in relief with foliage, a turban and a cornucopia, all on a punched gilt ground (cock replaced), button safety-catch, roller, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, figured walnut full stock profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls and swags (some losses) enriched on the butt with small gold insets, and studded with lines of silver tacks (some missing), chequered fore-end, iron mounts chiselled in relief against a punched gilt ground, pierced ramrod-pipes, and iron-mounted wooden ramrod, Liège proof
22in.
Provenance
Edward Ledger, Christie's, 15 May 1947, lot 177
William Randolph Hearst, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 December 1952, lot 9
William Randolph Hearst, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 December 1952, lot 9