A Rare Pair Of French 32-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols By...
A Rare Pair Of French 32-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Burgaud A Gailhac, Late 17th Century
With sighted barrels each with tapering sighting flat along the top with drop-shaped terminal at each end, the breech flats between chiselled with foliage and each engraved with a line of spheres behind, border engraved tangs each decorated with a budding plant, border engraved rounded locks each signed in capitals below foliage, and decorated on the tail with a Classical warrior seated on a drum, cocks (one expertly replaced) and steels chiselled with foliage, Grenoble walnut full stocks each carved in low relief with symmetrical scrolling foliage terminating in a monster-head on both sides of the fore-end (one mostly and the other partly replaced) and barrel tang, chiselled steel mounts comprising side-plates each pierced with scrolling foliage inhabited by a huntsman spearing a lion, crowned vacant escutcheons between female supporters each on a pedestal, a grotesque mask between, spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, trigger-guards each with moulded borders and pierced foliate finial, turned baluster ramrod-pipes (forward ones replaced), and iron-capped wooden ramrods each with iron worm (some light rust patination)(2)
31.8 cm and 32 cm. barrels
Burgaud is recorded in Gaillac, Tarn, South West France in circa 1699
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A Rare Pair Of French 32-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Burgaud A Gailhac, Late 17th Century
With sighted barrels each with tapering sighting flat along the top with drop-shaped terminal at each end, the breech flats between chiselled with foliage and each engraved with a line of spheres behind, border engraved tangs each decorated with a budding plant, border engraved rounded locks each signed in capitals below foliage, and decorated on the tail with a Classical warrior seated on a drum, cocks (one expertly replaced) and steels chiselled with foliage, Grenoble walnut full stocks each carved in low relief with symmetrical scrolling foliage terminating in a monster-head on both sides of the fore-end (one mostly and the other partly replaced) and barrel tang, chiselled steel mounts comprising side-plates each pierced with scrolling foliage inhabited by a huntsman spearing a lion, crowned vacant escutcheons between female supporters each on a pedestal, a grotesque mask between, spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, trigger-guards each with moulded borders and pierced foliate finial, turned baluster ramrod-pipes (forward ones replaced), and iron-capped wooden ramrods each with iron worm (some light rust patination)(2)
31.8 cm and 32 cm. barrels
Burgaud is recorded in Gaillac, Tarn, South West France in circa 1699
