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This artwork, A PAIR OF 48 BORE RUSSIAN FLINTLOCK OFFICER'S PISTOLS, is currently for sale at Mallett & Son Ltd.
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, A PAIR OF 48 BORE RUSSIAN FLINTLOCK OFFICER'S PISTOLS
 
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TITLE:  A PAIR OF 48 BORE RUSSIAN FLINTLOCK OFFICER'S PISTOLS
WORK DATE:  circa 1780
CATEGORY:  Miscellaneous Decorative Items
SIZE:  d: 15 in / d: 38.1 cm
PRICE*:  Contact Gallery for Price
GALLERY:  Mallett & Son Ltd  +44 (0)20 7499 7411  Send Email
DESCRIPTION:  With octagonal barrels engraved with a decorative band around the muzzles and the breeches, fitted with silver fore-sights. Each engraved with 'Hornschurch a Reval'. The modern town of Tallinn was known as Reval prior to its independence in 1918.

The style of decoration and screw-in fittings on these pistols is similar to a pair of flintlock revolvers by I. Polin of Tula, preserved in the Gatchina Arsenal, cat. No. 87,88. See Gatchina 2011, p. 150.

Russian

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