France Lot n° 16

Pair of flintlock pistols for officers. Gooseneck locks and hammers, underlined by fillets and engraved with a few scrolls, marked "A Paris". Counterplates decorated with engraved rocaille. Smooth barrels, with sides, then round, engraved with flowers and gilded fillets extending by a median scroll up to the muzzle, on a blue background. Walnut shafts carved with a rocaille motif and under the barrel with a leaf in full bloom; the grips filigree with silver. Silver fittings (950) cut and engraved with rocaille, the pommels with chased eagles' heads. With two wooden sticks with metal tips (distorted). Stag's head mark [?], perhaps the PARIS discharge mark for 1750-1756 (stylistically possible). Second half of the 18th century. Barrel length: 14,8 cm - Total length: 27,5 cm - Total gross weight: 952 g. Both hammers restored at the necks, one blocked cocked; revise the fixing of the bridges; some oxidations at the barrels; wear, some shocks and chips, with lacks, in particular at the stocks.