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Lot 72
Sale 5525 - Silver, Objets de Vertu & Russian Works of Art
Oct 18, 2016
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$9,000 -
12,000
Price Realized
$7,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Russian silver-gilt and niello mounted steel pistol apparently unmarked, circa 1825
With nielloed silver barrel mounts, the breech decorated with panels of parcel-gilt foliage, the muzzle and the tang similarly decorated, the lock similarly inlaid, the pommel highly decorated with parcel-gilding and niello work in imitation of tula steel, apparently unmarked.
L: 14 in.