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A CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK PISTOL

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:350.00 - 450.00 USD
A CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK PISTOL
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
A large example, likely Italian, the hardwood stock with shallow slope to the butt, with steel furniture very well-chiseled throughout in Mannerist motifs. The the barrel and lock chiseled en suite. Beginning of the Early 18th century. General wear, losses to wood around barrel tang. Overall length 54 cm.
Condition III