Пара Пистолетов. ударный кремневый. Европа. 18 век. фото 28-01

A PAIR OF FRENCH FLINTLOCK LONG HOLSTER PISTOLS
BY PUSSET A LUNEVILLE, CIRCA 1710
with slender tapering barrels formed with sighting flats and fitted with moulded fore-sights, moulded breeches stamped with a series of marks on the left (indistinct), plain tangs, signed stepped locks sparsely engraved with foliage and decorated with a delicate wavy linear pattern about the principal borders, the cocks engraved en suite, set triggers,
figured walnut full stocks carved with a raised moulding about the tangs and over the fore-ends, carved with a leafy moulding about the rear ramrod-pipes, full steel mounts comprising side-plates pierced with a strapwork design carrying a portrait medallion and involving leafy scrolls, moulded trigger-guards decorated with a recessed panel
on the bow and with acanthus finials issuant from a
grotesque half-mask, engraved trigger-plates, spurred pommels fitted with chiselled profile medallion caps, oval escutcheons decorated with a portrait medallion, and a pair of faceted ramrod-pipes (later ramrods) 57cm; 22I in