A French unsigned luxury flintlock pistol with a bronze barrel c 1770 with gilded and post-chiselled mounts. The butt cap decorated with military attributes, crowned escutcheon with a chest medallion, flat gilded lock plate, undecorated cock and battery, pierced side-plate with a horse and military attributes, trigger guard with a medallion and a grotesque mask, c 28,3 cm long cast bronze barrel in calibre c 15 mm decorated in high relief with a jester on horseback with drums, angels with trumpets and by the muzzle an officer with a spontoon. The front sight is made from a devil’s nose and the horn dubbed wooden ramrod is held by two fluted pipes - the back pipe with a grotesque mask.
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