308 A FINE PAIR OF 80 BORE CONTINENTAL SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS, CIRCA 1740, PROBABLY LIÈGE, with turn-off cannon barrels chiselled with scrolls of foliage and grotesques within scrollwork frames, the breeches chiselled with further scrolls, flowers and running hounds, engraved tangs, rounded locks fitted with chiselled cocks and steels each decorated en suite with the barrels, silver butts cast and chased with rococo ornament in low relief, including elaborate arrangements of scrolls inhabited by exotic birds and leaping stags, iron trigger-guards chiselled with a hound and a parrot, and retaining much original gilding throughout (light wear) 5.4cm; 2 1/8in barrels (2) ‡ £5000-7000
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