Lot 149
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An Unusual 38-Bore Long Flintlock Holster Pistol
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An Unusual 38-Bore Long Flintlock Holster Pistol

DUTCH OR ALSATIAN, CIRCA 1640-50

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An Unusual 38-Bore Long Flintlock Holster Pistol
Dutch or Alsatian, circa 1640-50
With mulit-staged barrel (fore-sight missing) partly hatched and engraved with foliage, and, on the top flat of the octagonal breech section with a line of guilloche ornament, at the rear an indistinct barrel-forger's mark, flat bevelled lock retaining faint traces of silvering and with internal steel-spring, further engraved guilloche ornament on the border, and foliated branches in encrusted silver, pierced cock inlaid with brass scrollwork, full stock finely inlaid with silver wire scrolls bearing flowers and foliage in white and green-stained staghorn and mother-of-pearl (butt repaired), iron trigger-guard, engraved silver ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, hollow silver pommel in the form of a lion's head, and later wooden ramrod
26in. (66cm.)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The inlay recalls that of the gunstocker Jean Conrad Tornier of Massevaux, who signed an inlaid coffer dated 1630 in the Wallace Collection (inv. no. A 1345), and stocked a flintlock gun dated 1646 in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII.1549)

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