These are not actually pistols as they do not shoot, but are actually music boxes that pop out a mechanical robot bird covered in feathers that moves and sings like a real bird. Made of gold and covered with pearls and diamonds there are only FOUR known single examples like them and only one set in a pair in the world known to exist.
Beautiful....
Diamonds and pearls which of course are critical to the speed and accuracy of the bullet.
While I do truly love automata, I’m having trouble getting my head around the need for two matching examples being sold as a pair.
It is items similar to this which got Walt Disney to start thinking about what later became known as “audio animatronics”.
Very enjoyable to watch.
Imagine one of today’s snowflakes creating something like this.
Obviously we need a return to feudalism so that our betters can afford more trinkets such as these. (/sarc)
Very nice, I’d say pity they don’t make stuff like this these days, but that’s not quite true. The modern equivalents are orbiting in space/on the moon.