Thomas Del Mar - Armour Sale

421VARIOUS OWNERS421A PAIR OF BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BYCASPAR PETER, CIRCA 1760with tapering barrels formed with long flats fitted with silverfore-sights, chiselled with foliage encrusted with silverabout the fore-sights and over the breeches, signedbevelled locks with engraved borders and decorated with astag on the tails (one cock missing its upper portion, theother chipped), figured walnut full stocks carved withrococo scrolls about the barrel tangs and with shellornament over the fore-ends, ‘bird’s head’ butts, gilt-brassmounts cast and chased with rococo ornament on astippled ground, including solid side-plates decorated witha reclining hound and a hunter within a scrollwork frame,trigger-guards with classical warriors on the bows,pommels decorated en suite with the trigger-guards andwith long shaped tangs, vacant escutcheons, a pair of plainramrod-pipes, fore-end caps, and each with its original giltbrasstipped wooden ramrod (the stocks each with smallchips, the gilding with areas of wear)39cm; 15G in£3000-4000179