antique arms, armour & militaria - Thomas Del Mar

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A PAIR OF 22 BORE FRENCH FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY
JEAN GRIOTTIERE, PARIS CHARGE MARK FOR 1762-68
with reblued swamped sighted barrels decorated in gold
with scrollwork, flowers and foliage, engraved tangs,
signed locks engraved with scrolls (engraving refreshed),
figured walnut full stocks carved with scrolls and foliage in
low relief about the rear ramrod-pipes and the tangs, full
silver mounts cast and chased in low relief, comprising
scrollwork side-plate decorated with a central rococo
flower, trigger-guards with foliate terminals, spurred
pommel decorated shell ornament on each side and with a
dolphin on the butt-caps, vacant oval escutcheons and a
pair of silver ramrod-pipes, and steel-tipped baleen
ramrods, probably the original
36cm; 14Din
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Jean Griottiere is recorded arquebusier in St Etienne during
the mid-18th Century. Støckel records 20 carbines, 215
rifles and 301 pistols made by Griottiere for the Dauphin's
Dragoon regiment in 1743. The decoration of the pommels
of the present pistols would suggest that they might have
been part of this order.
£4000-6000
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