Flintlock Pistols
Overall Length: 46 cm.
Signed Gilbert a Strasbourg.
Silver mounts by Johann Jacob Dörffer, Strasbourg 1766.
Dossier as PDF
Full stocks of walnut, carved in relief showing foliate scrolls and bunches of
grapes, the lock plates, body of the cocks, upper jaws and backs of steel chiselled
in relief and burnished against a fire gilded ground with scrolls, trophies and
blossoms, also finely engraved. Signatures “F Gilbert” and “a Strasbourg” within
two Rocaille ornaments on the lock plates.
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