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Friday 16 June 2023, 11:00 AM • Sarzana

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A beautiful pair of flintlock traveling pistols, late 18th Century

Estimate

€ 650 - 850

Sold

€ 1.500

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Francia
length 17.5 cm.
Smoothbore, four-stage, turn-off, 9.5 mm cal. barrels, first octagonal, then sixteen-faceted and at the end round, two-stage, with moulded nozzle, remains of browning. Engraved tangs. Locks engraved with floral motifs and with frame at the margin. Fine briarwood stocks sculpted around the tangs and filigree decorated on the back. Iron mounts finely engraved with floral motifs. Produced without ramrod. Working mechanism.
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