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Lot n° 13

France

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Pair of large flintlock pommel guns. Flat-bodied locks, underlined by wavy fillets and signed "N. Le Duc, Abeville", hammers with swan neck. Smooth, round barrels, with median flat ending in leaf blooming towards the thunder, this one with three moulded or engraved sides. Calibre 14 mm. Brass counter-plates openwork with scrolls with heads of chimeras and profiles of men in a medallion. Walnut shafts with pommel with grotesque mask on octagonal gilded brass bottom with chiselled braces of falls of leaves. Chased and gilded brass fittings and thumb pieces in cut, openwork and gilded brass, in escutcheon with drapery and grotesque mask. With wooden sticks, with iron pastille. Mid 18th century. Barrel length : 40,8 cm - Length : 58,5 cm. Very good condition. A few small bumps and chips to the wood.