Main Sale - March 2013 : Sale A1070 Lot 467
A GOOD PAIR OF 16-BORE MIQUELET-LOCK RAT-TAILED PISTOLS WITH GOLD KOFTGARI DECORATION AND WHITE-METAL MOUNTS,

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A GOOD PAIR OF 16-BORE MIQUELET-LOCK 'RAT-TAILED' PISTOLS WITH GOLD KOFTGARI DECORATION AND WHITE-METAL MOUNTS,
circa1820, with blued iron tapering 13in. barrels profusely inlaid with gold koftgari arabesques and religious incantations (surface corrosion), short miquelet locks with carved bridges, squared hammer jaws and ribbed frizzens, white-metal full-stocks fully covered with relief embossed arabesques inhabited with birds in flight (both stocks cracked through beneath locks), swollen pommels with spire tips embossed en-suite, engraved iron trigger-guard (one missing), embossed white-metal muzzle-caps and false ramrods (small losses throughout)

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Estimate £500-700