‡ A PAIR OF 25 BORE CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS, CIRCA 1780 each with tapering sighted barrel inscribed ‘Lazaro Lazarino’ on the slender flat, chiselled with rococo scrolls, shell-ornament and flowers against a gilt ground over the breech (rubbed, gilding worn, engraved tangs, rounded locks inscribed ‘A Paris’ at the front and chiselled and gilt en suite with the breeches (worn), full stocks carved with foliage about the rear ramrod-pipe and the tang, full steel mounts en suite with the breeches including spurred pommels, side-plates trigger-guards with foliate terminals and escutcheons (later ramrods), 23.2 cm barrels (2)

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