A PAIR OF OTTOMAN FLINTLOCK PARCEL-GILT PISTOLS (ZLATKA), OTTOMAN PROVINCES, PROBABLY PRIZREN, CIRCA 1800 |

the long tapered steel barrels encased at the muzzle, stocks decorated throughout with repousse gilt-silver, finely chiselled and chased with dense floral and scroll-designs, silver wire grips

Both in general good condition, some minor oxidisation to steel barrel and some rubbing to gilding, flintstones in place, not functioning, as viewed.
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A near identical pair believed to have been owned by Captain Henry Digby (commander of the HMS Africa at the battle of the Nile, 1798) is illustrated in R. Elgood, The Arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbours in the Ottoman Period, London, 2009, pp.190-1, nos.246 and 247.