Lot Essay
Although probably made originally for Ludwig VIII, the Gothic 'L' on the escutcheons is presumably that of one of the 19th century Grand Dukes, Ludwig II, III, or IV
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BY I.S. TANNER A LAUTERBACH, CIRCA 1750-60
Details
A Fine Pair Of 30-Bore German Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols
By I.S. Tanner A Lauterbach, circa 1750-60
With swamped three-stage reblued barrels with gilt mouldings and engraved and gilt foliate decoration, silver fore-sights, and slotted mouldings at the rear of the breeches, gold-lined touch-holes, shaped tangs cut with strapwork against a gilt fish-roe ground and engraved with a portrait bust, signed rounded locks each with moulded border, gilt screw-heads, blued pan, top jaw and screw, and steel-spring, moulded finely figured walnut full stocks each carved in relief with foliage behind the barrel tang, full silver mounts including foliate side-plates, the pommels each engraved 'No 7', the foliate escutcheons engraved with crowned owner's initial 'L', baluster ramrod-pipes, dark horn fore-end caps, and original horn-tipped ramrods, preserved in very fine little used condition
16¾in. (42.5cm.) (2)
By I.S. Tanner A Lauterbach, circa 1750-60
With swamped three-stage reblued barrels with gilt mouldings and engraved and gilt foliate decoration, silver fore-sights, and slotted mouldings at the rear of the breeches, gold-lined touch-holes, shaped tangs cut with strapwork against a gilt fish-roe ground and engraved with a portrait bust, signed rounded locks each with moulded border, gilt screw-heads, blued pan, top jaw and screw, and steel-spring, moulded finely figured walnut full stocks each carved in relief with foliage behind the barrel tang, full silver mounts including foliate side-plates, the pommels each engraved 'No 7', the foliate escutcheons engraved with crowned owner's initial 'L', baluster ramrod-pipes, dark horn fore-end caps, and original horn-tipped ramrods, preserved in very fine little used condition
16¾in. (42.5cm.) (2)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.