CIRCA 1680

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A RARE PAIR OF NORTH GERMAN ALL-STEEL FLINTLOCK PISTOLS OF CLOETER TYPE
Circa 1680
With two-stage barrels, one struck with a series of four marks beneath the breech (one probably Suhl), each with exposed action on the left-hand side, hollow butts with separate domed caps with pierced brattished border, plain trigger-guard, and slender ramrods with button terminals.
19¼in (48.8cm) (2)

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Possibly made by a member of the Cloeter family of gunmakers of Grevenbroich and Mannheim, with whom pistols of this type are associated.

See J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol.1, 1500-1660, 1965, pp.191-2.

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