A Fine Pair Of 25-Bore French Flintlock Holster Pistols
By F.s et A.e Penel Frères, St. Etienne, circa 1745
With tapering blued barrels signed in gold on the top flat of the breech and with bands of gold ornament at the rear, silver fore-sights, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved tangs, signed flat bevelled locks each with stepped tail engraved with differing waterfowl, blued pans, steel-springs, top jaws and screws, moulded figured walnut full stocks each carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang and a foliate spray behind the ramrod tail-pipe, cast and chased brass mounts finely engraved with rococo designs, solid side-plates with an engraved central martial trophy, the pommels in the form of a bird's head engraved with the number '38', cast and chased silver escutcheons each with a coronet above and a lion's mask beneath, and original iron-capped ramrods, in unusually fine little used condition, with nearly all original finish throughout, apart from slight loss of blue on each muzzle
16½in. (41.9cm.) (2)
A Fine Pair Of 25-Bore French Flintlock Holster Pistols
By F.s et A.e Penel Frères, St. Etienne, circa 1745
With tapering blued barrels signed in gold on the top flat of the breech and with bands of gold ornament at the rear, silver fore-sights, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved tangs, signed flat bevelled locks each with stepped tail engraved with differing waterfowl, blued pans, steel-springs, top jaws and screws, moulded figured walnut full stocks each carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang and a foliate spray behind the ramrod tail-pipe, cast and chased brass mounts finely engraved with rococo designs, solid side-plates with an engraved central martial trophy, the pommels in the form of a bird's head engraved with the number '38', cast and chased silver escutcheons each with a coronet above and a lion's mask beneath, and original iron-capped ramrods, in unusually fine little used condition, with nearly all original finish throughout, apart from slight loss of blue on each muzzle
16½in. (41.9cm.) (2)
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