Ledenica type flintlock pistol


Kotor (?) beginning of the 19th century Iron, gilt brass, forging, grinding, engraving, gilding pistol length 51.5 cm, 16 mm calibre An octagonal barrel with a gradual transition into a rounded one, smooth on the inside. Miquelet-type firing mechanism of standard make. The whole pistol is reinforced with a gilt brass sheet, decorated with engravings of stylised foils. The pistols had belonged to an officer of the Boka Naval Society (from the Kotor family of Boroje), in the beginning of the 19th century, and were bought in 1993 from Mrs Mira Kosovic-Radimir in Split. The pistols are a part of the uniform, catalogue number 141.




HPM/PMH-0032887(a,b)