A rare flintlock holster pistol by Harvey, London,London proof marks, circa 1710

with long barrel formed in three stages, decorated with a delicate pattern of gold-encrusted scrollwork ahead of the raised moulding at the breech, gold-lined vent and signed in gold, the tang decorated with a simple gold-encrusted border, signed plain rounded lock (mainspring worn), figured walnut full stock profusely inlaid with silver-wire foliage and border patterns partly enclosing later engraved silver plaques, one involving a Continental crowned double-eagle about the barrel tang (the fore-end replaced below the muzzle), silver mounts cast in low relief,  including spurred pommel engraved with scrollwork en suite with the breech and engraved with a beaded band enclosing a plain moulded cap, pierced dragonesque side-plate, moulded trigger-guard, and baluster ramrod-pipe (ramrod replaced, one ramrod-pipe missing)

The silver plaques would appear to have been added in the Balkan region within the first half of the 19th Century.