Lot Essay
All-steel pistols of this type are characteristic of the Cloeter family of gunmakers of Grevenbroich and Mannheim.
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CIRCA 1680
Details
A NORTH GERMAN ALL-STEEL FLINTLOCK PISTOL OF CLOETER TYPE
circa 1680
With three-stage barrel struck with a series of four marks beneath the breech, one the conjoined initials 'HF' (the remainder indistinct), exposed action on the left-hand side, hollow butt with separate domed cap with pierced brattished border, plain trigger-guard, small ramrod-pipes, and ramrod with swelling moulded tip.
17½in (44.5cm)
circa 1680
With three-stage barrel struck with a series of four marks beneath the breech, one the conjoined initials 'HF' (the remainder indistinct), exposed action on the left-hand side, hollow butt with separate domed cap with pierced brattished border, plain trigger-guard, small ramrod-pipes, and ramrod with swelling moulded tip.
17½
Provenance
Gérard Dintroz
Literature
Etienne and Alaric, Les pistolets Européens tout métal, G.d.A. no. 269, September 1996.
Special notice
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