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19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF BALKAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS (KUBUR) WITH SILVER STOCKS
19TH CENTURY
With tapering barrels, silver-covered tangs, rounded locks, full stocks cast and chased over their entire lengths with interlaced and scrolling ribband patterns enclosing flowers, foliage and trophies all in relief on a contrasting stippled ground, with the muzzle-sleeves and trigger-guards en suite, each of the latter also decorated with an exotic bird, with small designs picked-out in niello throughout, and pierced triggers formed as monsters
19¾in (50.2cm) (2)
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With tapering barrels, silver-covered tangs, rounded locks, full stocks cast and chased over their entire lengths with interlaced and scrolling ribband patterns enclosing flowers, foliage and trophies all in relief on a contrasting stippled ground, with the muzzle-sleeves and trigger-guards en suite, each of the latter also decorated with an exotic bird, with small designs picked-out in niello throughout, and pierced triggers formed as monsters
19¾in (50.2cm) (2)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium