Lot Essay
Jules Manceaux is recorded in Paris from 1838 until 1872.
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BY MANCEAUX, PARIS, FRENCH POST-1838 SILVER HALLMARKS
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A FRENCH 15-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL FOR THE NORTH AFRICAN MARKET
BY MANCEAUX, PARIS, FRENCH POST-1838 SILVER HALLMARKS
With tapering octagonal to round barrel with half-length sighting flat and inlaid at the breech with silver foliate designs, flat border and scroll engraved lock signed 'MANCEAUX A PARIS' in silver beneath the silver-encased priming-pan, walnut three-quarter stock, silver mounts cast and chased in relief with scrollwork against a stippled ground; together with AN OTTOMAN FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL, LATE 19TH CENTURY, with two-stage iron barrel, flat lock, and walnut full stock inlaid with brass and copper tendrils (stock badly damaged, mechanism at fault)
Respectively 10 5/8in. (27cm.) and 8¼in. (20.9cm.) barrels (2)
BY MANCEAUX, PARIS, FRENCH POST-1838 SILVER HALLMARKS
With tapering octagonal to round barrel with half-length sighting flat and inlaid at the breech with silver foliate designs, flat border and scroll engraved lock signed 'MANCEAUX A PARIS' in silver beneath the silver-encased priming-pan, walnut three-quarter stock, silver mounts cast and chased in relief with scrollwork against a stippled ground; together with AN OTTOMAN FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL, LATE 19TH CENTURY, with two-stage iron barrel, flat lock, and walnut full stock inlaid with brass and copper tendrils (stock badly damaged, mechanism at fault)
Respectively 10 5/8in. (27cm.) and 8¼in. (20.9cm.) barrels (2)
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