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Friday 16 June 2023, 11:00 AM • Sarzana

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A magnificent silver-mounted flintlock holster pistol in Ali Pasha style, circa 1800

Estimate

€ 2.000 - 3.000

Sold

€ 2.500

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Impero Ottomano
length 56.5 cm.
Long, round, smoothbore, 16 mm cal barrel with square base, two marks on the left side, with light carving at the first part, then with rib; flintlock with flat plate and oblique edges, finely engraved with floral and geometric motifs. Wooden stock completely covered with silver mounts, the butt and the part around the tang with magnificent silver mounts featuring rosettes and stylised flowers, partly made of niello, imposing butt-plate with racemes and cylindrical ends, the back featuring three niello rhombuses among cabochon corals, the lower side and the stock almost entirely decorated with very fine filigree, central band and trigger guard en suite with the back, barrel bracket entirely decorated with filigree racemes in bas-relief, fake ramrod with intertwined decoration. Working mechanism.
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