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Wednesday 25 September 2024 e Thursday 26 September 2024, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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An elegant percussion pistol, Mid 19th Century

Estimate

€ 1.000 - 1.500

Sold

€ 2.500

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Russia
length 45,2 cm.
Smoothbore, round, 13,2 mm cal. barrel, made of damask, featuring a tapered breech with floral carvings, then a finely silver inlaid segment (slight missing parts) with racemes, on the back a Cyrillic signature, at the nozzle the white metal foresight. Long tang carved and engraved with floral motifs and fore-end with the number "2" engraved on the base. Backward spring lock with working mechanism. The lock plate with a cartouche bordered in gold, inside a carved pheasant, outside floral motifs which are also repeated on the cock throw. Wooden, half stock richly decorated with spirals and white metal filigree, on the left side these form an inscription possibly in Arabic characters. The spherical trigger, the band on the underside engraved and carved like the tang. The wooden butt-plate shaped as a mushroom but of elliptical section.