133 - A beautiful pair of percussion pistols, with octagonal Damascus steel barrels featuring ribbon patterns in high relief, fitted with an adjustable blued steel front sight; length 17.7 mm, 8 mm caliber with four rifling grooves; flanged breeches reinforced on the muzzle side, made of gray-finished steel engraved with foliage motifs, one bearing the number: “1” in gold within an oval, the other bearing the number: “2”; breech stocks engraved in a matching design, fitted with an adjustable blued steel rear sight; gray-finished rear plates, entirely engraved with foliage and a trophy of arms, adorned around the perimeter with a silver border; steel trigger guards decorated in a continuous pattern, with a serpent-shaped trigger guard post, and round caps also engraved in a continuous pattern; walnut stocks checkered and adorned with inlays, including foliage-shaped inlays at the rear of the plates; short stocks carved at the ends with a feline head; total length 33 cm. Very good condition.

A beautiful pair of percussion pistols, with octagonal Damascus steel barrels featuring ribbon patterns in high relief, fitted with an adjustable blued steel front sight; length 17.7 mm, 8 mm caliber with four rifling grooves; flanged breeches reinforced on the muzzle side, made of gray-finished steel engraved with foliage motifs, one bearing the number: “1” in gold within an oval, the other bearing the number: “2”; breech stocks engraved in a matching design, fitted with an adjustable blued steel rear sight; gray-finished rear plates, entirely engraved with foliage and a trophy of arms, adorned around the perimeter with a silver border; steel trigger guards decorated in a continuous pattern, with a serpent-shaped trigger guard post, and round caps also engraved in a continuous pattern; walnut stocks checkered and adorned with inlays, including foliage-shaped inlays at the rear of the plates; short stocks carved at the ends with a feline head; total length 33 cm. Very good condition. They are housed in a handcrafted, varnished mahogany case; folding white metal handle on the top of the lid; wooden interior lined with beige-dyed chamois leather; it includes numerous accessories: a capsule box, two ramrods, a spring remover, a grease box, a copper powder horn, a bullet mold, a tool with two screwdriver blades that doubles as a breechblock remover, and a punch for cutting out cartridge cases; 38 x 29 x 8 cm. (The lock has been rendered inoperable; the lid is cracked but has been restored.) Good to very good condition. Period piece, likely from Eastern Europe, circa 1850–1860.