LATE 18TH CENTURY
Details
A Pair Of 20-Bore Spanish Miquelet-Lock Holster Pistols
Late 18th Century
With slightly belled two-stage barrels each with chiselled girdle, the octagonal breech sections with silver-inlaid decorative marks, single silver breech line, and two punzónes (lining missing) of Eudal Pous, Barcelona, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved locks each with gold-lined punzón on the front of the steel, figured moulded walnut full stocks each carved in relief with rococo ornament behind the barrel tang, brass mounts engraved with further rococo decoration, including spurred pommels each with silvered grotesque mask cap, large engraved silver escutcheons, and original horn-tipped ramrods (one incomplete)
15½in. (39.4cm.)
Eudal Pous, originally from Ripoll, appears to have worked in Madrid as well as Barcelona. He died in 1827
For the barrel marks on these pistols see James D. Lavin, A History of Spanish Firearms, p. 274 (2)
Late 18th Century
With slightly belled two-stage barrels each with chiselled girdle, the octagonal breech sections with silver-inlaid decorative marks, single silver breech line, and two punzónes (lining missing) of Eudal Pous, Barcelona, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved locks each with gold-lined punzón on the front of the steel, figured moulded walnut full stocks each carved in relief with rococo ornament behind the barrel tang, brass mounts engraved with further rococo decoration, including spurred pommels each with silvered grotesque mask cap, large engraved silver escutcheons, and original horn-tipped ramrods (one incomplete)
15½in. (39.4cm.)
Eudal Pous, originally from Ripoll, appears to have worked in Madrid as well as Barcelona. He died in 1827
For the barrel marks on these pistols see James D. Lavin, A History of Spanish Firearms, p. 274 (2)
Literature
W. Keith Neal, Spanish Guns and Pistols, plate 56