Product Details
J. SERAIN, SAUMUR
A FINE PAIR OF 14-BORE FLINTLOCK CONTINENTAL-SILVER MOUNTED HOLSTER-PISTOLS, no visible serial numbers,
circa 1750, with false damascened slightly swamped octagonal 11 3/4in. barrels, the top and side flats further decorated with inlaid silver arabesques, the muzzles carved with beaded bands and inlaid with a single silver band, the breeches en-suite, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved solid top-tangs featuring a stylised number '1' and '2' respectively, flat bevel-edged lockplates with stepped tails and signed 'J. SERAIN A SAUMUR' (faint, rubbed), the locks engraved with a seated figure of Cupid above a scrolled serpent, further cherubic figures to the tails, engraved hammers, lozenge-shaped pans, the frizzens carved with grotesques and featuring tails formed as serpents, figured walnut full-stocks carved with flowers and scrolls around the top-tangs and ramrod throats, carved borders around the ramrod channels, locks and trigger-guards, white metal rococo shell escutcheons to wrists surrounded by inlaid wire scrolls, white-metal long-eared butt-caps embossed with flowers, musical and marshall trophies, Romanesque masks to pommels, carved rococo shell trigger-guard bows and finials, carved and moulded white-metal rococo sideplates featuring hunting dogs pursuing wild boar, carved and turned ramrod pipes and mushroom-headed wood ramrods (locks brushed bright as original but with some loss to detail)
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Estimate £4,000-6,000