A FINE PAIR OF 16-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS By Andrew Dolep, London, early 18th Century With tapering barrels in two stages divided by a silver band, and each chiselled in relief at the breech section with vacant cartouche and acanthus foliage, and with raised mouldings at the rear, silver fore-sights, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved grooved tangs, border engraved rounded locks each with waved raised border and signed 'Dolep Londini' (tail of one lock chipped, combs of both cocks incomplete), moulded walnut full stocks carved in relief at the fore-ends and barrel tangs with acanthus foliage, and inlaid with scrollwork in silver wire, full cast and chased brass mounts, engraved spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, pierced foliate side-plates each involving a profile head, trigger-guards with acanthus finial, pierced escutcheons engraved with owner's crest and surmounted by a grotesque mask, baluster forward ramrod-pipes (the rear pipes apparently working replacements), and horn-tipped ramrods, one with worm (some wear, most of one trigger-guard replaced, barrels with scattered surface pitting), London proof marks 16¼in. (41.2cm.) (2)
A FINE PAIR OF 16-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS By Andrew Dolep, London, early 18th Century With tapering barrels in two stages divided by a silver band, and each chiselled in relief at the breech section with vacant cartouche and acanthus foliage, and with raised mouldings at the rear, silver fore-sights, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved grooved tangs, border engraved rounded locks each with waved raised border and signed 'Dolep Londini' (tail of one lock chipped, combs of both cocks incomplete), moulded walnut full stocks carved in relief at the fore-ends and barrel tangs with acanthus foliage, and inlaid with scrollwork in silver wire, full cast and chased brass mounts, engraved spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, pierced foliate side-plates each involving a profile head, trigger-guards with acanthus finial, pierced escutcheons engraved with owner's crest and surmounted by a grotesque mask, baluster forward ramrod-pipes (the rear pipes apparently working replacements), and horn-tipped ramrods, one with worm (some wear, most of one trigger-guard replaced, barrels with scattered surface pitting), London proof marks 16¼in. (41.2cm.) (2)
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