拍品 134
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AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF AUGSBURG TORTOISESHELL-VENEERED SILVER-MOUNTED WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with plain barrels each with full-length central rib running down the tang, and a shorter rib on each side over the first third of each barrel, struck beneath the touch-hole with the Augsburg mark, flat bevelled locks sparsely engraved with flowers, sliding pan-covers, flush-fitting cocks engraved with animal-heads, wooden full stocks covered with panels of tortoiseshell and under-painted in orange (tortoiseshell damaged and incomplete), domed oval pommels en suite and encircled with a band engraved with a design of overlapping chevrons, trigger-guards each engraved with a flowerhead (one finial missing), turned ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods (fore-end caps and one ramrod tip missing, one ramrod replaced), unsigned, mid-17th Century

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AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF AUGSBURG TORTOISESHELL-VENEERED SILVER-MOUNTED WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with plain barrels each with full-length central rib running down the tang, and a shorter rib on each side over the first third of each barrel, struck beneath the touch-hole with the Augsburg mark, flat bevelled locks sparsely engraved with flowers, sliding pan-covers, flush-fitting cocks engraved with animal-heads, wooden full stocks covered with panels of tortoiseshell and under-painted in orange (tortoiseshell damaged and incomplete), domed oval pommels en suite and encircled with a band engraved with a design of overlapping chevrons, trigger-guards each engraved with a flowerhead (one finial missing), turned ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods (fore-end caps and one ramrod tip missing, one ramrod replaced), unsigned, mid-17th Century
25¾in. (2)

拍品專文

These hitherto unrecorded pistols belong to a very small group of firearms stocked in this manner of which only three other pairs of wheel-lock pistols, all bearing the Augsburg mark, are so far recorded

See William Reid, 'Tortoise-Shell Veneered Pistols In The Scott Collection', Scottish Art Review Special Number, 1956, pp. 30-38; Bengt Claudelin, Catalogue Of The Collection Of Arms And Armour At Hallwyl House, Stockholm, 1928, No. A. 15 (unillustrated); and F. Theodore Dexter, Forty-Two Years' Scrapbook of Rare Ancient Firearms, 1954, pp. 78-9