Large and beautiful pair of double flintlock pistols. Round, table-top barrels with hollow bands and silver sights, patinated and beautifully decorated in gold with foliage, lilies, flowers, interlacing and floral squares. Hollowed-out, line-decorated breech tangs. The four locks signed "André Cropison" and the flat-bodied, finely engraved swan-neck hammers. Steel fittings, cut, engraved and chased en suite. Double-throttles. Long-eared pommels engraved with foliage and flowers and decorated with line work. Varnished walnut mounts. Walnut crossbars, carved towards the breech tails and on the barrels at the entrance to the ramrods; embellished with silver threads. Oval thumb pieces engraved with coats of arms. Wooden sticks with bone tips. B.E. (minor wood damage to pins due to disassembly). N.B.: Beautiful and imposing pair of pistols, probably for hunting. Presented in a brown leather carrying case covered with chamois-colored leather, with brass carrying handle. Length: 42 cm - Caliber: 14 mm approx. Case: 48 x 27 x Ht. 16.5 cm