Details
A VERY FINE PAIR OF GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS in the French taste, with two-stage barrels, the forward section etched in imitation of Turkish twist and fitted with silver fore-sights, the breeches chiselled in relief with foliage and a martial trophy surmounted by a baldachin, with drapery and a shell beheath, all on a gilt fishroe ground, engraved tangs decorated with a profile portrait bust, flat bevelled locks chiselled and gilt with scrollwork and signed and dated on a ribbon, the steels with a grotesque mask, finely figured walnut full stocks carved with scrollwork and foliage in relief and a grotesque mask behind each barrel tang (one butt repaired), iron mounts chiselled in low relief against a gilt fishroe ground, the pommel-caps and side-plates each with a portrait medallion, the former wearing armour, silver escutcheons between lion supporters and bearing gold monogram of the letter F below a princely crown, engraved faceted ramrod-pipes, and original iron-capped wooden ramrods, by Schmeiser à Eisenach, dated 1728
20¼in. (2)
Exhibited
EXHIBITED:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Exhibition of European Arms & Armor, 1931, No. 338
Brooklyn Museum, Loan Exhibition of European Arms and Armor, 1933, No. 245
