BY JEAN PAUL KLETT, EBENAU, SALZBURG, CIRCA 1650

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A Pair Of 29-Bore Austrian Wheel-Lock Holster Pistols
By Jean Paul Klett, Ebenau, Salzburg, circa 1650
With two-stage barrels retaining much of their original blued finish, the breech sections octagonal then sixteen-sided and struck with a small 'P' at the rear, plain tangs, signed flat bevelled locks each retained by three side-nails and engraved with characteristic flowers and foliage, small pierced foliate wheel-brackets, engraved pan-covers each with flush-fitting release button engraved with an expanded flower, flat cocks engraved with monster-heads, ebonized full stocks (minor chips and cracks, one fore-end tip repaired, the other partly replaced), flattened butts each with oval pommel bound with an engraved silver band and inlaid with a central white staghorn roundel, shaped iron trigger-guards, single iron ramrod-pipes (one replaced), silver fore-end caps (one later), and later silver-tipped ramrods
24in. (61cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

Johann Paul Klett (d. 1663), originally from Suhl, arrived in Ebenau in 1636. He is noted for his over-and-under flintlock pistols, with both fixed and turn-over barrels, for four-barrel revolving pistols, and breech-loading magazine pistols. Although lacking the characteristic glued labels, the present pistols were probably sold in the 1920s from the Thun Hohenstein princely Gewehrgalerie at Schloß Tetschen

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