Pair of flintlock pistols of fine workmanship and good signa - Lot 31

Pair of flintlock pistols of fine workmanship and good signature, 14 mm caliber 170 mm barrel, decorated with decorated, with a flat top punched with a unicorn and engraved "M.J. Tezenas", round-bodied lock and swan-neck hammer round bodies, the lock and hammer bodies edged with fillet, round bassoon with sparkguard rim, all silver-plated acanthus-decorated openwork counterplate, cap with auricles, attractive walnut mounting, veined carved with scrolls and grotesque thumbpiece, wear, oxidation, missing chopstick holder trim, minor small bumps and cracks to the wood, TL 295 mm, France, first half of the 18th century, shortened in the second half of the 18th century, grade A. second half of the 18th century, category D § e.) TEZENAS, famous Saint-Etienne dynasty of chiselers, gunners and harquebusiers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Expert Hervé MATOUS