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LATE 17TH CENTURY
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A FINE SILESIAN FLINTLOCK AXE-PISTOL (FOKOS)
Late 17th Century
With iron barrel decorated over its length with engraved and gilt panels of scrolls and leaves, the tang en suite, and with finely punched scrollwork patterns between, engraved bevelled lock, iron axe- head fitted over the muzzle, formed with a rectangular pean drawn-up to four splayed reinforced points, slender blade engraved with a hare on each face and with aperture for the ramrod (replaced), fruitwood haft inlaid in the Teschen manner with horn scrolls, ball flowers and pellets within horn lines, inhabited by hounds, hares and grotesques enriched with large engraved ball flowers and fruit in mother-of-pearl, engraved staghorn pommel, the trigger and trigger-plate each of gilt iron, and both of these and the barrel retaining traces of their original gilding.
27¼in (69.2cm)
Late 17
With iron barrel decorated over its length with engraved and gilt panels of scrolls and leaves, the tang en suite, and with finely punched scrollwork patterns between, engraved bevelled lock, iron axe- head fitted over the muzzle, formed with a rectangular pean drawn-up to four splayed reinforced points, slender blade engraved with a hare on each face and with aperture for the ramrod (replaced), fruitwood haft inlaid in the Teschen manner with horn scrolls, ball flowers and pellets within horn lines, inhabited by hounds, hares and grotesques enriched with large engraved ball flowers and fruit in mother-of-pearl, engraved staghorn pommel, the trigger and trigger-plate each of gilt iron, and both of these and the barrel retaining traces of their original gilding.
27¼
Literature
Alaric and Etienne, Une curieuse arme combinée à silex: La hache-pistolet de Silésie, G.d.A. No.303, October 1999.
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