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Premier Auction - Session II

Sat, Jul 16, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1028

Two Continental Saddle Flintlock Pistols

Estimate: $300 - $600

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

Dutch brass flintlock marked "Gotfroid Rouma", 12 in. round to octagonal barrel with brass blade front sight, banding and barrel tang, decorative brass furniture including urn finial trigger guard, shield and crown and thumb rest, and grotesque head butt cap, ramrod with brass tip, carved walnut stock, 19-1/2 in. overall; unmarked continental flintlock, 11 in. flat top round to octagonal smoothbore barrel, iron furniture, knob finial butt cap, carved walnut stock, 18-1/2 in. overall

Provenance: Private Collection

Condition

handling wear to surfaces, patina and oxidation to metal surfaces, dings and scratches to wooden surfaces, hairline to Dutch pistol at trigger guard, other gun with other pistol with 3/4 in., loss to wood at butt cap, several hairlines at trigger guard, 3-3/4 in., repaired split to fight stock forend, 3 in. hairline to left side of forend, composition repairs to forend, other hairlines at trigger guard, Dutch pistol action works with manipulation of the trigger, action of other pistol functions softly

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