A pair of cased percussion pistols

dating: Mid 19th Century provenance: Belgium, Rifled, two-stage, 12 mm cal barrels. The first stage octagonal and decorated with fullers at the corners alternating with twisted decorations and engraved floral motifs on the first part of the fullers and at the girdle. The second stage with eight sides of minor width and staggered towards base, the corners with fullers. The nozzle in line with the base, featuring floral decorations and front sight. A barrel with the marks of the Liège test bench. Breech with engraved leaves and numbers '1' and '2' in gold. The tangs engraved en suite, provided with fixed rear sight and numbered as the breeches. Forward spring locks richly engraved with flowers and rocaille. Working mechanisms, one with two snaps, one with single snap. Wooden half stocks (one with a very small missing part at the fore-end cap, near the barrel, the other with the same small cracks) featuring various rocaille and flower carvings, handles also with a checkered segment at the center. Iron mounts engraved en suite. Trigger guards with finger support, the triggers with adjustment screw. In their wooden case (small damages). With mustard-colored velvet lining (signs of use and age). It also includes the flask, probably replaced, and all the other tools such as the hammer, the ramrod, the bullet mold and others. length 39,5 cm.