A Fine Pair of French Rifled Pistols, Circa 1741
A Pair of Silver Mounted French Flintlock Rifled Pistols, Circa 1741. With turn-off two-stage barrels each with turned ring around the muzzle and rifled with twelve grooves, the forward sections (one lug worn) gold-damascened and punched with spiral bands of foliage within line borders, the rear sections with gilt fleur-de-lys en suite, gilt octagonal breeches becoming polygonal and each with punched gilt foliage along the flats, tangs en suite, signed border engraved rounded locks each decorated with a basket of flowers on the tail, rounded cocks engraved en suite, moulded highly figured Grenoble walnut half-stocks (some old infills) each with swelling rounded butt and finely carved in relief with a flower-head and foliage behind the tang, cast and chased silver mounts comprising shaped foliate side-plates, the decoration partly against punched grounds, and butt-caps and trigger-guards en suite.
Notes:
Pierre-Francios Desveney is recorded as having been born in St. Etienne on 31 December 1731.
ex. Mark Dinely Collection – Bonhams November 2019 Lot 487.
Dimensions:
Bore: 35 Bore
Barrel Length: 8 Inches (20.30 cm)
Overall Length: 13 Inches (33 cm)
£4,950.00
1 in stock
