A LIEGE ALL-METAL OVER-AND-UNDER FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL with turn-off rifled cannon barrels, sparsely engraved action (one cock an old replacement) decorated with small recessed panels gilt on a fish-roe ground, tang and steels en suite, stud safety-catches, open triggers, and rounded silver butt engraved with a demi-monster and scrolling foliage on each side and a grotesque mask behind the tang (the iron parts worn and reblued overall), unsigned, circa 1730

A LIEGE ALL-METAL OVER-AND-UNDER FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL with turn-off rifled cannon barrels, sparsely engraved action (one cock an old replacement) decorated with small recessed panels gilt on a fish-roe ground, tang and steels en suite, stud safety-catches, open triggers, and rounded silver butt engraved with a demi-monster and scrolling foliage on each side and a grotesque mask behind the tang (the iron parts worn and reblued overall), unsigned, circa 1730
5in.