THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A Very Rare Pair Of 30-Bore Turkish Miquelet-Lock Holster Pistols
LATE 17TH CENTURY
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A Very Rare Pair Of 30-Bore Turkish Miquelet-Lock Holster Pistols
Late 17th Century
With rebrowned twist barrels of 'hog's back' form each with moulded muzzle and decorated at the muzzle and breech with a triangular panel of encrusted gold arabesques and a heavily gilt turn between gold lines (some gold missing), gold-encrusted tangs, small locks with engraved and chiselled details and each with a small brass-lined circular stamp inscribed ' The work of Yusef', ebony full stocks (one butt repaired) inlaid with brass rosettes of ebony, white and green-stained bone (some replaced on one butt), oblong ebony-inlaid bone panels, and rosette-shaped bone- and brass-inlaid mother-of-pearl panels, enriched on the butts with patterns of silver studs and red pellets, engraved shaped parcel-gilt silver panels at each barrel tang and ramrod-entry, and opposite each lock, later iron trigger-guards, large swelling ivory pommels, ivory fore-end caps, and ivory-tipped ramrods
20¾in. (52.8cm.)
For a somewhat similar pair of pistols in Dresden (HMD Y 308) see Johannes Schöbel, Prunkwaffen, No. 183, pp. 233, 254 (2)
Late 17th Century
With rebrowned twist barrels of 'hog's back' form each with moulded muzzle and decorated at the muzzle and breech with a triangular panel of encrusted gold arabesques and a heavily gilt turn between gold lines (some gold missing), gold-encrusted tangs, small locks with engraved and chiselled details and each with a small brass-lined circular stamp inscribed ' The work of Yusef', ebony full stocks (one butt repaired) inlaid with brass rosettes of ebony, white and green-stained bone (some replaced on one butt), oblong ebony-inlaid bone panels, and rosette-shaped bone- and brass-inlaid mother-of-pearl panels, enriched on the butts with patterns of silver studs and red pellets, engraved shaped parcel-gilt silver panels at each barrel tang and ramrod-entry, and opposite each lock, later iron trigger-guards, large swelling ivory pommels, ivory fore-end caps, and ivory-tipped ramrods
20¾in. (52.8cm.)
For a somewhat similar pair of pistols in Dresden (HMD Y 308) see Johannes Schöbel, Prunkwaffen, No. 183, pp. 233, 254 (2)