Lot Essay
These pistols appear to be based on the pair of pistols signed 'FP' in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. nos. XII. 1263-4), illustrated in Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, nos. 66-67
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
Details
A PAIR OF 38-BORE DECORATIVE WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTERS IN THE STYLE OF FRANÇOIS POUMEROL
Probably 19th Century
With slender two-stage barrels, long tangs extending to the pommels, bevelled locks of characteristic French form, the pan-cover release-buttons each decorated in relief with a male profile portrait bust, full stocks, fluted pear-shaped pommels picked out with silver dots, and silver-tipped wooden ramrods
24¾in. (62.8cm.) (2)
Probably 19th Century
With slender two-stage barrels, long tangs extending to the pommels, bevelled locks of characteristic French form, the pan-cover release-buttons each decorated in relief with a male profile portrait bust, full stocks, fluted pear-shaped pommels picked out with silver dots, and silver-tipped wooden ramrods
24¾in. (62.8cm.) (2)
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