PARTLY MID-17TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF 25-BORE GERMAN COMPOSITE WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
PARTLY MID-17TH CENTURY
WITH OCTAGONAL BARRELS EACH STRUCK WITH SUHL MARKS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BREECH, LATER FOLIATE ENGRAVING AT THE MUZZLE, BREECH AND TANG, LOCKS EACH WITH BEVELLED TAIL AND FINELY ENGRAVED IN THE FRENCH MANNERIST STYLE AT A LATER DATE (ONE COCK REPLACED), FULL STOCKS (EACH LIGHTLY WORMED, MINOR CHIPS, ONE FORE-END CRACKED) INLAID AT A LATER DATE WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL PELLETS, AND WHITE STAGHORN PELLETS AND SCROLLS INHABITED BY MONSTERS (LOSSES THROUGHOUT), LATER POMMELS INLAID WITH FURTHER MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND WHITE STAGHORN PELLETS, AND STAGHORN BALL-FLOWERS AND LION-MASKS, IRON TRIGGER-GUARDS WITH LATER SCROLL ENGRAVING, AND LATER HORN-TIPPED RAMRODS (IRON PARTS WITH LIGHT SURFACE RUST THROUGHOUT)
25IN. (63.5CM.) (2)
PARTLY MID-17TH CENTURY
WITH OCTAGONAL BARRELS EACH STRUCK WITH SUHL MARKS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BREECH, LATER FOLIATE ENGRAVING AT THE MUZZLE, BREECH AND TANG, LOCKS EACH WITH BEVELLED TAIL AND FINELY ENGRAVED IN THE FRENCH MANNERIST STYLE AT A LATER DATE (ONE COCK REPLACED), FULL STOCKS (EACH LIGHTLY WORMED, MINOR CHIPS, ONE FORE-END CRACKED) INLAID AT A LATER DATE WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL PELLETS, AND WHITE STAGHORN PELLETS AND SCROLLS INHABITED BY MONSTERS (LOSSES THROUGHOUT), LATER POMMELS INLAID WITH FURTHER MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND WHITE STAGHORN PELLETS, AND STAGHORN BALL-FLOWERS AND LION-MASKS, IRON TRIGGER-GUARDS WITH LATER SCROLL ENGRAVING, AND LATER HORN-TIPPED RAMRODS (IRON PARTS WITH LIGHT SURFACE RUST THROUGHOUT)
25IN. (63.5CM.) (2)