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A Fine and Rare Pair Of 18-Bore Silver-Mounted Indian Flintlock Holster Pistols, Together With A 16-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Sporting Gun, All In The English Manner Lucknow Arsenal, circa 1785 The pistols with rebrowned octagonal barrels chiselled in low relief with panels of running foliage on a punched and gilt ground and inscribed 'L: Col: Claude Martin', gold-lined touch-holes, chiselled and gilt tangs, chiselled and gilt bevelled locks signed 'Lucknow Arsenal' on a scroll, and each with pierced cock, roller, large safety-catch also locking the steel, and gold-lined pan with water- drain, figured rosewood full stocks each carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang (one fore-end with minor repair), engraved cast and chased silver mounts including parcel-gilt spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, engraved silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end caps, and silver-tipped ramrods, one with worm; the sporting gun almost en suite, with rebrowned lengthened sighted barrel with later inscription 'Lucknow Arsenal L. Col. Claud ( sic ) Martin,' grooved chiselled and gilt tang, figured walnut full stock with take-down fore-end (replaced), the butt inlaid on each side with silver wire scrolls involving engraved silver panels representing a fox-hunting scene with hounds in full cry, after Sartorius, and on the right side with a sportsman shooting partridges, and later silver-tipped ramrod (some wear, iron parts with some surface pitting and some refreshed decoration, top jaw and screw replaced) The pistols 17¾in. (45.1cm.) The gun with 36in. (91.4cm.) barrel (3)