TWO ALBANIAN 18-BORE SILVER-GILT STOCKED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
TWO ALBANIAN 18-BORE SILVER-GILT STOCKED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS

LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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TWO ALBANIAN 18-BORE SILVER-GILT STOCKED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The first with tapering barrel chiselled with scrollwork at the breech, flat bevelled lock with roller and raised priming-pan, silver-gilt stock cast and chased in low relief with tendrils, flowers and panels of shallow fluting, some of the borders with nielloed running foliage, trigger-guard with nielloed flower-head, and false ramrod; the second similar, of 'Rat-Tailed' form, with swamped barrel with worn maker's stamps at the breech, rounded scroll engraved lock, and silver-gilt stock cast and chased with foliage, flowers and trellis-work
Respectively 11¾in. (30cm.) and 13½in. (34.3cm.) barrels (2)

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