Lot 153
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A Rare Pair of 54-Bore German (Nuremberg) All-Steel Wheel-Lock Belt Pistols
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A Rare Pair of 54-Bore German (Nuremberg) All-Steel Wheel-Lock Belt Pistols

CIRCA 1570-80

Details
A Rare Pair of 54-Bore German (Nuremberg) All-Steel Wheel-Lock Belt Pistols
Circa 1570-80
With swamped 22in. (55.9cm.) three-stage barrels stamped on each octagonal breech with barrel-forger's mark PB (Støckel 4228) and Nuremberg mark, flat locks each struck with maker's mark, a spur (Støckel 5882), and each with engraved cock and pan-cover, pierced and engraved wheel-cover, cross-cut pan-cover release button, and swivelling safety-catch, hollow full stocks (one with minor defects), two-piece spherical pommels opened by pressing a stud on the upper side, iron trigger-guards and belt hooks each with turned mouldings, and later iron-tipped ramrods (one broken), each butt covered with fabric (some rust pitting)
30in. (76.2cm.) (2)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Cf. similar all-steel wheel-lock pistols of great length in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. M 631-1927- illustrated in Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, plate 11), and in the Tøjhusmuseet, Copenhagen (inv. no. B 286-287- illustrated in Arne Hoff, Feuerwaffen I, plate 105)

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