Пара Пистолетов. ударный кремневый. Европа. 18 век. фото 27-01
A PAIR OF BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY CASPAR PETER, CIRCA 1760
with tapering barrels formed with long flats fitted with silver fore-sights, chiselled with foliage encrusted with silver about the fore-sights and over the breeches, signed bevelled locks with engraved borders and decorated with a stag on the tails (one cock missing its upper portion, the
other chipped), figured walnut full stocks carved with rococo scrolls about the barrel tangs and with shell ornament over the fore-ends, ?bird’s head’ butts, gilt-brass mounts cast and chased with rococo ornament on a stippled ground, including solid side-plates decorated with a 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 and with long shaped tangs, vacant escutcheons, a pair of plain ramrod-pipes, fore-end caps, and each with its original giltbrass tipped wooden ramrod (the stocks each with small chips, the gilding with areas of wear) 39cm; 15G in