BY ANDREW DOLEP, LONDON, CIRCA 1700

细节

A Fine Pair Of 24-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Andrew Dolep, London, circa 1700
With slightly belled two-stage sighted barrels, the signed breech sections each with raised mouldings and a spray of foliage chiselled in relief, engraved tangs, signed border engraved locks (one jaw-screw replaced), moulded figured walnut full stocks (minor bruising, chips, and cracks) each with pronounced swelling near the ramrod tail-pipe and raised moulding at the barrel tang, and inlaid with scrollwork in graduated silver wire, full cast and chased silver mounts, spurred pommels each with spiral foliate cap, pierced foliate side-plates involving a satyr-mask, fluted trigger-guards each with foliate finial issuing from a grotesque mask, foliate escutcheons, silver baluster ramrod-pipes (one later), and iron-capped wooden-tipped ramrods (probably original), one with worm (some wear and scattered pitting), London proof marks
18½in. (45.7cm.) (2)

出版

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pp. 243-5, plates 89a-f

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

Andreas Rheinhold Dolep, 'Dutchman', was one of the most important London gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was born in about 1648. In 1681 he worked for Sir Philip Howard, Commander of the Queen's Troop of Horseguards, and was fined in 1686 for unproved guns, but made free of the Gunmakers' Company by redemption in the same year at the request of Lord Dartmouth. He was granted denization in 1691 and married in 1687. He died in 1713

Dolep made fine and ingenious firearms, many of them multi-shot. For a description of further examples of his work see Neal and Back, op. cit., pp. 228-242, 246-8, plates 83-88 and 90-91. See also lot 25