细节
An Unusual 38-Bore Long Flintlock Holster Pistol
Dutch or Alsatian, circa 1640-50
With mulit-staged barrel (fore-sight missing) partly hatched and engraved with foliage, and, on the top flat of the octagonal breech section with a line of guilloche ornament, at the rear an indistinct barrel-forger's mark, flat bevelled lock retaining faint traces of silvering and with internal steel-spring, further engraved guilloche ornament on the border, and foliated branches in encrusted silver, pierced cock inlaid with brass scrollwork, full stock finely inlaid with silver wire scrolls bearing flowers and foliage in white and green-stained staghorn and mother-of-pearl (butt repaired), iron trigger-guard, engraved silver ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, hollow silver pommel in the form of a lion's head, and later wooden ramrod
26in. (66cm.)