A RARE PAIR OF GERMAN ALL-STEEL FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with two-stage barrels, exposed actions on the left side, cocks with chiselled details, hollow iron butts with separate oval pommels, trigger-guards with pierced finials, and slender iron ramrods (one replaced) each with three small pipes, unsigned, circa 1660-70

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A RARE PAIR OF GERMAN ALL-STEEL FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with two-stage barrels, exposed actions on the left side, cocks with chiselled details, hollow iron butts with separate oval pommels, trigger-guards with pierced finials, and slender iron ramrods (one replaced) each with three small pipes, unsigned, circa 1660-70
21in. [E.504, S.21,22] (2)

Lot Essay

Probably made by a member of the Cloeter family of Grevenbroich and Mannheim

For firearms of this type see Hayward, vol.I, pp.191-2

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