Pair of French Style Flintlock Muff Pistols

.50 caliber. 3.25" two stage octagon to round barrels with baluster turned transitions. NSN. Bright finish, steel mountings, silver wire inlay, European hardwood stocks. Single shot muzzleloading smoothbore flintlock pocket pistols. 3" convex pointed locks are in original flint and are unmarked. Locks with fenced and bridled rounded iron pans and rounded swan neck cocks. Steel butt caps engraved with rudimentarily facial motifs in the form of the classic "grotesque mask". Aprons inlaid with silver wire and with a silver wire border around the butt caps. Both pistols include button head steel ramrods. No markings, but stylistically likely first quarter of the 19th century and of French origin. {ANTIQUE}

This lot is located in Cincinnati.