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Auction archive: Lot number 268

Two 18-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' miquelet-lock pistols, and a 20-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' flintlock pistol

Auction 20.11.1996
20 Nov 1996
Estimate
£600 - £900
ca. US$997 - US$1,496
Price realised:
£1,380
ca. US$2,294
Auction archive: Lot number 268

Two 18-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' miquelet-lock pistols, and a 20-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' flintlock pistol

Auction 20.11.1996
20 Nov 1996
Estimate
£600 - £900
ca. US$997 - US$1,496
Price realised:
£1,380
ca. US$2,294
Beschreibung:

Two 18-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' miquelet-lock pistols, and a 20-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' flintlock pistol All 19th century The first with tapering barrel inlaid with silver scrollwork at the breech, lightly engraved lock struck with a mark, wooden full stock carved with scrollwork over most of its length and decorated with silver panels cast and chased with scrollwork in relief, silver spurred pommel, barrel band and muzzle band en suite, the first and last each heightened with niello, and engraved iron trigger-guard (ramrod missing); the second with engraved brass stock and barrel bands (ramrod missing, trigger-guard loose); the third with wooden full stock inlaid with pierced and engraved brass panels set with corals (mostly missing), and with engraved brass mounts (ramrod missing) 20½in. (52.1cm.) to 18in. (45.7cm.) (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 268
Auction:
Datum:
20 Nov 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

Two 18-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' miquelet-lock pistols, and a 20-bore Balkan 'rat-tailed' flintlock pistol All 19th century The first with tapering barrel inlaid with silver scrollwork at the breech, lightly engraved lock struck with a mark, wooden full stock carved with scrollwork over most of its length and decorated with silver panels cast and chased with scrollwork in relief, silver spurred pommel, barrel band and muzzle band en suite, the first and last each heightened with niello, and engraved iron trigger-guard (ramrod missing); the second with engraved brass stock and barrel bands (ramrod missing, trigger-guard loose); the third with wooden full stock inlaid with pierced and engraved brass panels set with corals (mostly missing), and with engraved brass mounts (ramrod missing) 20½in. (52.1cm.) to 18in. (45.7cm.) (3)

Auction archive: Lot number 268
Auction:
Datum:
20 Nov 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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