LATE 16TH CENTURY
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A FINE 28-BORE GERMAN BALL-BUTT WHEEL-LOCK PISTOL ("PUFFER")
LATE 16TH CENTURY
WITH SWAMPED BARREL CHISELLED IN RELIEF ALONG ITS ENTIRE LENGTH, WITH THREE STANDING CLASSICAL FIGURES WITHIN A WAVED BORDER AGAINST A PUNCHED GILT GROUND, THE PANELS DIVIDED BY DESIGNS OF SCROLLING FOLIAGE INHABITED BY BIRDS, THE BREECH STRUCK WITH A MARK, A FALCHION, FLAT LOCK CHISELLED WITH SCROLLING FOLIAGE IN RELIEF ON A PUNCHED GILT GROUND (SAFETY-CATCH AND SPRING REMOVED), FLAT WHEEL-COVER CHISELLED WITH A DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE, ENGRAVED AND GILT COCK AND PAN-COVER (RELEASE BUTTON MISSING), FULL STOCK ENTIRELY INLAID WITH CLOSE-SET SCROLLWORK IN FINELY ENGRAVED HORN INHABITED BY BIRDS, ANIMALS AND MASKS AND ENCLOSED BY ENGRAVED STAGHORN BORDERS, CHISELLED AND GILT TRIGGER-GUARD AND SIDE-PLATE, GILT TRIGGER, AND LATER RAMROD WITH ENGRAVED HORN TIP (GILDING AND MINOR AREAS OF CHISELLING LATER, THE POMMEL WITH LATER CENTRAL PLAQUE)
21IN. (53.3CM.)
ALMOST CERTAINLY FROM THE SAXON ROYAL ARMOURIES, DRESDEN. THE STOCK INLAY IS EXECUTED IN THE MANNER OF KLAUS HIRT OF WASUNGEN (NEAR SUHL), WHOSE SIGNATURE APPEARS ON THE STOCK OF A WHEEL-LOCK GUN IN THE HISTORISCHES MUSEUM, BERN
LATE 16TH CENTURY
WITH SWAMPED BARREL CHISELLED IN RELIEF ALONG ITS ENTIRE LENGTH, WITH THREE STANDING CLASSICAL FIGURES WITHIN A WAVED BORDER AGAINST A PUNCHED GILT GROUND, THE PANELS DIVIDED BY DESIGNS OF SCROLLING FOLIAGE INHABITED BY BIRDS, THE BREECH STRUCK WITH A MARK, A FALCHION, FLAT LOCK CHISELLED WITH SCROLLING FOLIAGE IN RELIEF ON A PUNCHED GILT GROUND (SAFETY-CATCH AND SPRING REMOVED), FLAT WHEEL-COVER CHISELLED WITH A DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE, ENGRAVED AND GILT COCK AND PAN-COVER (RELEASE BUTTON MISSING), FULL STOCK ENTIRELY INLAID WITH CLOSE-SET SCROLLWORK IN FINELY ENGRAVED HORN INHABITED BY BIRDS, ANIMALS AND MASKS AND ENCLOSED BY ENGRAVED STAGHORN BORDERS, CHISELLED AND GILT TRIGGER-GUARD AND SIDE-PLATE, GILT TRIGGER, AND LATER RAMROD WITH ENGRAVED HORN TIP (GILDING AND MINOR AREAS OF CHISELLING LATER, THE POMMEL WITH LATER CENTRAL PLAQUE)
21IN. (53.3CM.)
ALMOST CERTAINLY FROM THE SAXON ROYAL ARMOURIES, DRESDEN. THE STOCK INLAY IS EXECUTED IN THE MANNER OF KLAUS HIRT OF WASUNGEN (NEAR SUHL), WHOSE SIGNATURE APPEARS ON THE STOCK OF A WHEEL-LOCK GUN IN THE HISTORISCHES MUSEUM, BERN