A Very Rare Pair Of 30-Bore Turkish Miquelet-Lock Holster Pistols Late 17th Century With rebrowned twist barrels of 'hog's back' form each with moulded muzzle and decorated at the muzzle and breech with a triangular panel of encrusted gold arabesques and a heavily gilt turn between gold lines (some gold missing), gold-encrusted tangs, small locks with engraved and chiselled details and each with a small brass-lined circular stamp inscribed ' The work of Yusef', ebony full stocks (one butt repaired) inlaid with brass rosettes of ebony, white and green-stained bone (some replaced on one butt), oblong ebony-inlaid bone panels, and rosette-shaped bone- and brass-inlaid mother-of-pearl panels, enriched on the butts with patterns of silver studs and red pellets, engraved shaped parcel-gilt silver panels at each barrel tang and ramrod-entry, and opposite each lock, later iron trigger-guards, large swelling ivory pommels, ivory fore-end caps, and ivory-tipped ramrods 20¾in. (52.8cm.) For a somewhat similar pair of pistols in Dresden (HMD Y 308) see Johannes Schöbel, Prunkwaffen , No. 183, pp. 233, 254 (2)
A Very Rare Pair Of 30-Bore Turkish Miquelet-Lock Holster Pistols Late 17th Century With rebrowned twist barrels of 'hog's back' form each with moulded muzzle and decorated at the muzzle and breech with a triangular panel of encrusted gold arabesques and a heavily gilt turn between gold lines (some gold missing), gold-encrusted tangs, small locks with engraved and chiselled details and each with a small brass-lined circular stamp inscribed ' The work of Yusef', ebony full stocks (one butt repaired) inlaid with brass rosettes of ebony, white and green-stained bone (some replaced on one butt), oblong ebony-inlaid bone panels, and rosette-shaped bone- and brass-inlaid mother-of-pearl panels, enriched on the butts with patterns of silver studs and red pellets, engraved shaped parcel-gilt silver panels at each barrel tang and ramrod-entry, and opposite each lock, later iron trigger-guards, large swelling ivory pommels, ivory fore-end caps, and ivory-tipped ramrods 20¾in. (52.8cm.) For a somewhat similar pair of pistols in Dresden (HMD Y 308) see Johannes Schöbel, Prunkwaffen , No. 183, pp. 233, 254 (2)
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