AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS originally made to fire two superimposed loads, with two-stage barrels struck with initials AM at the breech, rounded locks engraved on the tails and with a flowerhead on the cock-retaining bolts, the forward touch-hole ignitied through a removeable tube secured to the side of the breech by a ring at its front end, the rear touch-hole now rendered inoperative by a plug screwed into the base of the pan, full stocks carved with a scroll on each fore-end, iron mounts including spurred pommels, and trigger-guards with pierced finial (one bow broken), single pierced iron ramrod-pipes, horn washers for the side-nails, white horn fore-end caps, and original iron-tipped ramrods, circa 1660, German or Dutch