A FINE AND RARE FRENCH FLINTLOCK GARNITURE COMPRISING A PAIR OF 22-BORE PISTOLS AND AN 18-BORE FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE BY LE LORRAIN A VALENCE, CIRCA 1690-1700 The pistols each with silver fore-sight let into the full-length sighting flat, the breeches each engraved with a band of foliage and with a raised longitudinal rib on each side, border engraved tangs, signed rounded locks with moulded border and each engraved with a band of foliage beneath the pan (one cock later, the other partly replaced), moulded figured walnut full stocks, iron mounts comprising elaborately pierced side-plates chiselled in relief with foliage and monster-heads, spurred pommels, shaped stepped trigger-guards, and plain shaped escutcheons, blued trigger-plates, and spirally fluted ramrod-pipes, and original iron-capped ramrods (one trigger finial incomplete), the fowling-piece en suite, with brass fore-sight, blued steel-spring, top jaw and screw, moulded butt-plate engraved 'No 16', and with separate waved tang in the form of a monstrous serpent, and original iron-capped ramrod (the stocks with minor defects, one pistol with some light pitting) 15 1/8in. and 46 5/8in. barrels (3)
A FINE AND RARE FRENCH FLINTLOCK GARNITURE COMPRISING A PAIR OF 22-BORE PISTOLS AND AN 18-BORE FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE BY LE LORRAIN A VALENCE, CIRCA 1690-1700 The pistols each with silver fore-sight let into the full-length sighting flat, the breeches each engraved with a band of foliage and with a raised longitudinal rib on each side, border engraved tangs, signed rounded locks with moulded border and each engraved with a band of foliage beneath the pan (one cock later, the other partly replaced), moulded figured walnut full stocks, iron mounts comprising elaborately pierced side-plates chiselled in relief with foliage and monster-heads, spurred pommels, shaped stepped trigger-guards, and plain shaped escutcheons, blued trigger-plates, and spirally fluted ramrod-pipes, and original iron-capped ramrods (one trigger finial incomplete), the fowling-piece en suite, with brass fore-sight, blued steel-spring, top jaw and screw, moulded butt-plate engraved 'No 16', and with separate waved tang in the form of a monstrous serpent, and original iron-capped ramrod (the stocks with minor defects, one pistol with some light pitting) 15 1/8in. and 46 5/8in. barrels (3)
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