A RARE RUSSIAN (TULA) HOLSTER PISTOL ENCRUSTED IN GOLD AND SILVER, SIGNED WITH THE MAKER'S INITIALS JG, FROM A GARNITURE OF FLINTLOCK FIREARMS MADE FOR GENERAL-IN-CHIEF MIKHAIL KRECHETNIKOV (1729-1793), DEPUTY VICEROY OF THE PROVINCE OF TULA AND STEWARD OF MALOROSSIA (THE UKRAINE)
CIRCA 1785
A RARE RUSSIAN (TULA) HOLSTER PISTOL ENCRUSTED IN GOLD AND SILVER, SIGNED WITH THE MAKER'S INITIALS JG, FROM A GARNITURE OF FLINTLOCK FIREARMS MADE FOR GENERAL-IN-CHIEF MIKHAIL KRECHETNIKOV (1729-1793), DEPUTY VICEROY OF THE PROVINCE OF TULA AND STEWARD OF MALOROSSIA (THE UKRAINE) CIRCA 1785 With sighted barrel formed in two stages, the breech inset with an architectural panel of blued iron applied with the owner's coat-of-arms, crest and five orders including the Annensky Cross, all on a plynth of martial trophies and all in finely chiselled gold and silver, brass vent, blued breech tang decorated with a chiselled and gilt swag with pendant gold leaves and silver beaded borders, bevelled lock signed with the engraved initials JG on the inside, inlaid with the later silver inscription 'I.C. Kuchenreuter', the tail and cock en suite with the breech tang, the cock also decorated with garlands of roses finely encrusted in gold and the steel encrusted and chiselled with further patterns of foliage, figured walnut stock carved with flowers and scrolls in low relief about the breech tang and ramrod-pipe (small cracks, the forward half of the fore-end an early working replacement), full mounts of blued steel finely chiselled en suite with the lock, finely encrusted with delicate gold foliage, the pommel, side-plate and trigger-guard each with silver beaded borders, the latter also decorated with an elaborate gold trophy-of-arms, and with later bone-tipped ramrod. 16 1/8in (41cm)
A RARE RUSSIAN (TULA) HOLSTER PISTOL ENCRUSTED IN GOLD AND SILVER, SIGNED WITH THE MAKER'S INITIALS JG, FROM A GARNITURE OF FLINTLOCK FIREARMS MADE FOR GENERAL-IN-CHIEF MIKHAIL KRECHETNIKOV (1729-1793), DEPUTY VICEROY OF THE PROVINCE OF TULA AND STEWARD OF MALOROSSIA (THE UKRAINE)
CIRCA 1785
A RARE RUSSIAN (TULA) HOLSTER PISTOL ENCRUSTED IN GOLD AND SILVER, SIGNED WITH THE MAKER'S INITIALS JG, FROM A GARNITURE OF FLINTLOCK FIREARMS MADE FOR GENERAL-IN-CHIEF MIKHAIL KRECHETNIKOV (1729-1793), DEPUTY VICEROY OF THE PROVINCE OF TULA AND STEWARD OF MALOROSSIA (THE UKRAINE) CIRCA 1785 With sighted barrel formed in two stages, the breech inset with an architectural panel of blued iron applied with the owner's coat-of-arms, crest and five orders including the Annensky Cross, all on a plynth of martial trophies and all in finely chiselled gold and silver, brass vent, blued breech tang decorated with a chiselled and gilt swag with pendant gold leaves and silver beaded borders, bevelled lock signed with the engraved initials JG on the inside, inlaid with the later silver inscription 'I.C. Kuchenreuter', the tail and cock en suite with the breech tang, the cock also decorated with garlands of roses finely encrusted in gold and the steel encrusted and chiselled with further patterns of foliage, figured walnut stock carved with flowers and scrolls in low relief about the breech tang and ramrod-pipe (small cracks, the forward half of the fore-end an early working replacement), full mounts of blued steel finely chiselled en suite with the lock, finely encrusted with delicate gold foliage, the pommel, side-plate and trigger-guard each with silver beaded borders, the latter also decorated with an elaborate gold trophy-of-arms, and with later bone-tipped ramrod. 16 1/8in (41cm)
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