A Pair Of 22-Bore Balkan Flintlock Holster Pistols

A Pair Of 22-Bore Balkan Flintlock Holster Pistols
Early 19th Century
With swamped barrels inlaid with silver scrollwork and three transverse lines at the breech, and with an inscription in silver on the sighting flat, engraved tangs, rounded locks each with engraved garbled two-line inscription, roller and raised pan, walnut full stocks (small chip in front of one lock) finely carved with scrollwork in relief and inlaid with silver wire on the butts, engraved brass mounts including solid side-plates chased with scrolls in low relief against a punched ground, the escutcheons and spurred pommels each with finely encrusted silver decoration, brass ramrod-pipes, and false ramrods
16¾in. (42.6cm.) (2)