A PAIR OF GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK BELT PISTOLS with swamped two-stage barrels stamped with initials DM at the breech, plain flat locks lightly engraved on the wheel-covers and fitted with safety-catches and pan-release buttons, full stocks inlaid with engraved staghorn panels within roped staghorn lines, the butts profusely inlaid with staghorn scrolls enclosing ball-flowers, iron trigger-guards and belt hooks, ball pommels each with central staghorn medallion engraved with a classical portrait bust, and engraved staghorn fore-end caps, (some damage to stocks and inlay, one fore-end cap incomplete, both ramrods missing), late 16th Century

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A PAIR OF GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK BELT PISTOLS with swamped two-stage barrels stamped with initials DM at the breech, plain flat locks lightly engraved on the wheel-covers and fitted with safety-catches and pan-release buttons, full stocks inlaid with engraved staghorn panels within roped staghorn lines, the butts profusely inlaid with staghorn scrolls enclosing ball-flowers, iron trigger-guards and belt hooks, ball pommels each with central staghorn medallion engraved with a classical portrait bust, and engraved staghorn fore-end caps, (some damage to stocks and inlay, one fore-end cap incomplete, both ramrods missing), late 16th Century
22in. [E.469, S.32,33] (2)

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