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CIRCA 1710-20
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A PAIR OF BOHEMIAN LONG FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY (JOHANN) GODTFRID BREIDFELTER À CARLSBAD
circa 1710-20
With signed swamped heavy barrels each with brass fore-sight, octagonal breech engraved with a warrior in the antique style, a pair of scrolling griffons rising from beneath, brass vent and the tang incorporating an iron back-sight, brass bevelled locks engraved with putti seated within trophies-of-war, carved figured walnut full stocks decorated with raised mouldings over their full length (minor cracks and chips, one with small repair beneath the pommel and the fore-end replaced foreward of the rear ramrod-pipe, evidently an 18th Century repair), full brass mounts, the trigger-guards and pommels decorated with engraved border ornament, the latter also with domed lion mask caps, the escutcheons and side-plates each cast in low relief with pierced designs of scrolls and grotesques, faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-caps, and one retaining its original ramrod
22½in. (57.2cm.) (2)
circa 1710-20
With signed swamped heavy barrels each with brass fore-sight, octagonal breech engraved with a warrior in the antique style, a pair of scrolling griffons rising from beneath, brass vent and the tang incorporating an iron back-sight, brass bevelled locks engraved with putti seated within trophies-of-war, carved figured walnut full stocks decorated with raised mouldings over their full length (minor cracks and chips, one with small repair beneath the pommel and the fore-end replaced foreward of the rear ramrod-pipe, evidently an 18th Century repair), full brass mounts, the trigger-guards and pommels decorated with engraved border ornament, the latter also with domed lion mask caps, the escutcheons and side-plates each cast in low relief with pierced designs of scrolls and grotesques, faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-caps, and one retaining its original ramrod
22½in. (57.2cm.) (2)
Provenance
Provenance The Counts von Giech, part I, Sotheby and Co., 21 May 1974, lot 76
The Visser Collection, part I, Sotheby's 3 July 1990, Lot 154
The Visser Collection, part I, Sotheby's 3 July 1990, Lot 154
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