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Pair of double flintlock pistols. Round barrels...

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Pair of double flintlock pistols. Round barrels with mouths and flats. signed on the band "J. Lamotte L'Ainé" and decorated with gold thunderbolts. Turntables signed "Joseph Lamotte L'Ainé". and round-bodied swan-neck dogs (one dog replaced not to model). Trimmings in plain, cut-iron. Long-eared knobs with line decoration. Walnut crossbars with long shafts partly carved with foliage. Backs of backs adorned with a crowned thumbpiece, chiselled in daylight. Fanon sticks with horn tips. E.M. circa 1760/1780 (remains of gold, oxidation, cracking to one of the barrels along barrels and stock). Lamotte Joseph Arquebusier à Saint Etienne, (1716-1807). Lamotte: a large family of Saint Etienne harquebusiers and armorers Etienne in the 18th and 19th centuries.