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An Unusual Pair Of 28-Bore German Flintlock Holster Pistols With Brass Barrels, Locks, And Mounts

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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An Unusual Pair Of 28-Bore German Flintlock Holster Pistols With Brass Barrels, Locks, And Mounts
Early 18th Century
With heavy swamped sighted barrels each cast in relief with overlapping scales at the rear of the breech, plain iron tangs, rounded locks each with moulded border, brass cock and steel (one cock replaced), moulded lightly carved walnut full stocks (one fore-end tip replaced), faceted trigger-guards each with foliate finial, pierced side-plates cast and chased with foliage and monster-heads in relief, spurred pommels decorated in relief with garlands and female musicians, and each with grotesque mask cap, turned faceted ramrod-pipes, and later wooden ramrods
20½in. (52.1cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

The inner side of one lock is struck with a mark, 'VI' above a bird, similar to Neue Støckel 4659

Cf. a pair of holster pistols of circa 1700 by Wagner of Berlin incorporating the same extensive use of brass, sold in the Visser Collection, Part I, Sotheby & Co., London, 3 July 1990, lot 173, and a rifle of 1693 by Casper Keilholsz, sold in these Rooms, 15 July 1998, lot 126

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