A DUTCH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, the barrel chiselled at the breech with symmetrical scrollwork terminating in monster-heads and with sighting rib and silver fore-sight, the former with traces of the signature, the engraved rounded lock with moulded border and chiselled in relief with scrollwork on the cock and steel, the moulded and lightly carved figured walnut full stock with chiselled iron mounts including pierced scroll side-plate centered on a grotesque mask, spurred pommel with grotesque mask cap, and flat pierced escutcheon, turned ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrod (the stock and escutcheon each replaced during the pistol's working life), by Penterman, Utrecht, late 17th Century