Пара Пистолетов. ударный кремневый. Европа. 18 век. фото 11-01
A FINE PAIR OF 28 BORE BOHEMIAN SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY WISTALLER, OLMITZ, CIRCA 1750 with etched twist swamped barrels in the Turkish manner fitted with silver fore-sights, encrusted with silver over much of their surface comprising scrolls and a band of beadwork around the muzzle, scrolling foliage over the median, and the breech decorated with rondels and scrolls incorporated within a linear framework enclosing a pseudo Turkish gold inscription and set with a garnet behind, gold-lined vents, engraved barrel tangs decorated with a rococo scallop and numbered '1' and '2' respectively, rounded locks signed 'Wistaler' and 'a Olmitz' (one top-jaw and screw missing), blued triggers, figured walnut full stocks moulded over the fore-ends, carved with rococo ornament behind the rear ramrod-pipe and about the barrel tang, full silver mounts engraved with rococo ornament, comprising solid side-plate, trigger-guards, butt-caps, vacant escutcheons, a pair of ramrod-pipes, and silver fore-end caps, and each with its original silver-tipped wooden ramrod 46cm; 18 1/8in