A RARE 28 BORE INDIAN SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed with a strongly moulded muzzle and a slender central reed over much of its length, decorated with gold koftgari at the muzzle and breech, iron tang en suite, rounded lock fitted with semi-rainproof pan, full stock, flat-sided butt of near bird's head form, inset with a shaped silver plaque on each side, that on the right decorated with niello flowers, silver mounts comprising a finely pierced side-plate filled with scrolling foliage and flowers opposite the lock, pear-shaped butt-cap with foliate borders and a chased with central flowerhead, shaped nielloed escutcheon decorated with flowers, a long ramrod-pipe (dents, fore-end cap missing), and iron trigger-guard (probably an early working replacement, and iron ramrod, perhaps the original 25.5 cm; 10 in barrel
A RARE 28 BORE INDIAN SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed with a strongly moulded muzzle and a slender central reed over much of its length, decorated with gold koftgari at the muzzle and breech, iron tang en suite, rounded lock fitted with semi-rainproof pan, full stock, flat-sided butt of near bird's head form, inset with a shaped silver plaque on each side, that on the right decorated with niello flowers, silver mounts comprising a finely pierced side-plate filled with scrolling foliage and flowers opposite the lock, pear-shaped butt-cap with foliate borders and a chased with central flowerhead, shaped nielloed escutcheon decorated with flowers, a long ramrod-pipe (dents, fore-end cap missing), and iron trigger-guard (probably an early working replacement, and iron ramrod, perhaps the original 25.5 cm; 10 in barrel
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