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A MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOL
The barrel early 18th century
With earlier octagonal sighted brass barrel from a carbine, rifled with seven grooves, signed 'Johan Adam Knott A Carls patt' on the top-flat, and engraved with the figure of Mars beneath a baldachin at the breech, brass tang engraved with a mask and strapwork, engraved flat lock with maker's mark (defaced, steel refaced), walnut full stock cut with foliate borders, brass mounts engraved with foliage, and later brass-tipped ramrod
25in. (63.5cm.)
The barrel early 18th century
With earlier octagonal sighted brass barrel from a carbine, rifled with seven grooves, signed 'Johan Adam Knott A Carls patt' on the top-flat, and engraved with the figure of Mars beneath a baldachin at the breech, brass tang engraved with a mask and strapwork, engraved flat lock with maker's mark (defaced, steel refaced), walnut full stock cut with foliate borders, brass mounts engraved with foliage, and later brass-tipped ramrod
25in. (63.5cm.)