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A GREEK KOUMPOURA PISTOL

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
A GREEK KOUMPOURA 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...
Produced in the well known Epirot weapons-making center of Ioannina, the wooden stock with brass mounts, the grip with characteristic shallow curvature and large bud pommel. With elegantly engraved European flintlock mechanism. The barrel octagonal at the breach. With ramrod intact. Beginning of the 19th century. Slight chipping around lock. Overall length 56.5 cm.
Condition II