A PAIR OF SWEDISH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with two-stage sighted barrels each signed in silver on the octagonal breech and with double touch-hole, plain tangs, border engraved faceted locks signed against a punched ground, carved and moulded figured walnut full stocks (some bruising, one pistol with minor repairs), steel mounts including spurred pommels, trigger-guards and engraved pierced side-plates, horn fore-end caps, and later brass-mounted wooden ramrods, by Moritz Friedrich Nussbaum, Stockholm, second quarter of the 18th Century

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A PAIR OF SWEDISH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with two-stage sighted barrels each signed in silver on the octagonal breech and with double touch-hole, plain tangs, border engraved faceted locks signed against a punched ground, carved and moulded figured walnut full stocks (some bruising, one pistol with minor repairs), steel mounts including spurred pommels, trigger-guards and engraved pierced side-plates, horn fore-end caps, and later brass-mounted wooden ramrods, by Moritz Friedrich Nussbaum, Stockholm, second quarter of the 18th Century
19½in. (2)

Lot Essay

See Kaa Wennberg, Svenska Pistolsmeder, pp. 26-31

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