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Friday 16 June 2023, 11:00 AM • Sarzana

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A pair of flintlock pistols by Starbus, about 1690

Estimate

€ 2.000 - 2.500

Sold

€ 7.125

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Amsterdam
length 49.5 cm.
Long, smoothbore, four-stage, 15 mm cal barrels, octagonal at the first part, then decorated with grooves and featuring two round segments, the former with silver rear sight featuring a badge surmounted by a crown, the latter with rib and sight. Beautiful flintlocks signed "STARBUS AMSTERDAM" (the signature of one lock and some engravings not clearly legible), engraved with a character at the center and carved with a grotesque character at the tang (working mechanisms). Slightly sculpted, wooden full stocks with iron mounts carved with busts, snakes and floral motifs. Pierced counter-plates. Complete with iron-tipped, wooden ramrods.
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