˜AN ELABORATE PAIR OF 32 BORE CONTINENTAL SILVER-MOUNTED RIFLED PISTOLS SIGNED BOUTET A VERSAILLES,

˜AN ELABORATE PAIR OF 32 BORE CONTINENTAL SILVER-MOUNTED RIFLED PISTOLS SIGNED BOUTET A VERSAILLES, CIRCA 1820 AND LATER with octagonal swamped sighted polygroove rifled barrels later decorated with gold on a blued ground including minute stars, foliage and neo-classical panels, the breeches stamped with imitation Versailles manufactory marks and incorporating the back-sights, engraved tangs, engraved burnished stepped locks later inscribed ~Boutet à Versailles~ , fitted with rollers, semi-rainproof pans and later engraved cocks and steels, set triggers, full stocks later inlaid with numerous engraved silver panels including trophies-of-arms, and foliage, angular butts carved with scale pattern inset with minute silver nails, later full silver mounts cast and chased in low relief, including openwork side-plates formed of two swans feeding from a central urn, trigger-guards with neo-classical urn finials and engraved with a crowned coat-of-arms on the bow, marine trophy butt-caps, a pair of ramrod-pipes, the rearmost formed as a river god, and each with silver-tipped ramrod: in lined and fitted case veneered in rosewood, the lid finely inlaid in engraved brass with a crowned mantled coat-of-arms en suite in the centre, a griffin in each corner and border lines, the interior lined in plum velvet and with a full compliment of accessories including priming-flask engraved with a coat-of-arms en suite, bullet mould, turn-screw and mallet 24.8 cm; 9 ¾ in barrels (2) The arms are those of the Austrian field marshal and diplomat Karl Philipp, Prince Schwarzenberg, (1771-1820), one of the most successful Allied commanders in the Napoleonic Wars.