10.5inch two-stage tapering blued barrel set with a maker's cartouche at the breech, stamped PAUL BREIDENFELTER, finely engraved lock decorated with two gentlemen on horseback firing pistols at each other within a wooded landscape, full stocked with scrolling silver wire decoration and carved with foliage about the mounts, gilt brass mounts decorated with classical figures and foliage, the cast side plate decorated en suite with two figures on horseback, horn fore-end cap and horn capped wooden ramrod. A not dissimilar pistol exists in the Royal Collection which belonged to Lieutenant-General Baron Eben and was presented to him by Countess Schonkirchen and thence presented to the Royal Collection by Baron Eben in 1806.
Sold for £2,600
10.5inch two-stage tapering blued barrel set with a maker's cartouche at the breech, stamped PAUL BREIDENFELTER, finely engraved lock decorated with two gentlemen on horseback firing pistols at each other within a wooded landscape, full stocked with scrolling silver wire decoration and carved with foliage about the mounts, gilt brass mounts decorated with classical figures and foliage, the cast side plate decorated en suite with two figures on horseback, horn fore-end cap and horn capped wooden ramrod. A not dissimilar pistol exists in the Royal Collection which belonged to Lieutenant-General Baron Eben and was presented to him by Countess Schonkirchen and thence presented to the Royal Collection by Baron Eben in 1806.
Auction: AUTUMN VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION, 14th Nov, 2023
FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR
NOVEMBER 14TH & 15TH 2023 FROM 10AM
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