Lot 177
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A PAIR OF GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with two-stage barrels each stamped with a clover-leaf mark and the initials HK at the breech, moulded locks retained by three screws (two later, one missing), full stocks (one wormed and with later fore-end, the other a working replacement), iron trigger-guards (not a pair) and spurred pommels, single brass ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods, third quarter of the 17th Century

Details
A PAIR OF GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with two-stage barrels each stamped with a clover-leaf mark and the initials HK at the breech, moulded locks retained by three screws (two later, one missing), full stocks (one wormed and with later fore-end, the other a working replacement), iron trigger-guards (not a pair) and spurred pommels, single brass ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods, third quarter of the 17th Century
21in. (2)
Provenance
The Armoury of Their Serene Highnesses the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (Part II), sold in these Rooms, 23 September, 1992, lot 535
Literature
Max von Ehrenthal, Die Waffensammlung des Fürsten Salm-Reifferscheidt zu Schloss Dyck, Leipzig, 1906, No. 483

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