A GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with swamped sighted barrel cut with sighting flat and a stepped moulding at the breech, bevelled plain lock lightly chiselled at the rear, walnut full stock carved with a series of raised mouldings about its contours and borders, full iron mounts with chiselled acanthus finials, including spurred pommel fitted with domed cap cut with a shaped cartouche, flat side-plate pierced and engraved with a scrolling bandwork pattern involving a monster's head and a bust oval, faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod (light chemical pitting throughout, the stock chipped along the upper edges on both sides at the muzzle, scattered very light inactive worm damage, the ramrod incomplete). 55cm; 215/8 in
A GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with swamped sighted barrel cut with sighting flat and a stepped moulding at the breech, bevelled plain lock lightly chiselled at the rear, walnut full stock carved with a series of raised mouldings about its contours and borders, full iron mounts with chiselled acanthus finials, including spurred pommel fitted with domed cap cut with a shaped cartouche, flat side-plate pierced and engraved with a scrolling bandwork pattern involving a monster's head and a bust oval, faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod (light chemical pitting throughout, the stock chipped along the upper edges on both sides at the muzzle, scattered very light inactive worm damage, the ramrod incomplete). 55cm; 215/8 in
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