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Auction archive: Lot number 29

A Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol (Celina or Ledenica) Boka Kotorska Or Northern Albania, 19th Century

Estimate
£500 - £650
ca. US$632 - US$821
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 29

A Balkan 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol (Celina or Ledenica) Boka Kotorska Or Northern Albania, 19th Century

Estimate
£500 - £650
ca. US$632 - US$821
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

With plain russet barrel with silver mount over the tang cast and chased with foliage, flat bevelled lock signed 'Bossi', silver full stock and bulbous pommel cast and chased overall in relief with foliate scrollwork within beaded line borders, trigger-guard, muzzle-sleeve and false ramrod all en suite, and gilt trigger cast, pierced and chased with foliage; together with a brass-hilted kilij in Ottoman style, and a Balinese kris, the first with curved double-edged blade (pitted) etched on both sides with foliage and a panel containing pseudo Arabic inscriptions, hilt with monster-head quillons, and eagle-head pommel set with red glass eyes; the second with earlier waved blade (pitted), and bone grip carved in the round as a seated priest, in its carved bone-mounted scabbard, with aluminium pandaq (one strap missing) chased with foliage (3) The first 34.5 cm. barrel

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
23 May 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

With plain russet barrel with silver mount over the tang cast and chased with foliage, flat bevelled lock signed 'Bossi', silver full stock and bulbous pommel cast and chased overall in relief with foliate scrollwork within beaded line borders, trigger-guard, muzzle-sleeve and false ramrod all en suite, and gilt trigger cast, pierced and chased with foliage; together with a brass-hilted kilij in Ottoman style, and a Balinese kris, the first with curved double-edged blade (pitted) etched on both sides with foliage and a panel containing pseudo Arabic inscriptions, hilt with monster-head quillons, and eagle-head pommel set with red glass eyes; the second with earlier waved blade (pitted), and bone grip carved in the round as a seated priest, in its carved bone-mounted scabbard, with aluminium pandaq (one strap missing) chased with foliage (3) The first 34.5 cm. barrel

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
23 May 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
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