Lot 266
266
A PAIR OF WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with plain barrels of hog's back form and struck with barrelsmith's mark, a dagger (similar to Neue Støckel 4917) on the left side of the breech, rounded locks retained by three screws, and each with small pierced gilt-brass wheel-retaining bracket, and gilt pan-cover release button with cherub-mask terminal (one button missing), pearwood full stocks inlaid with silver wire scrolls, stars and dots, and opposite the lock with a vacant armorial shield surmounted by a coronet, fluted silver pommels terminating in an embossed central rosette, small turned silver ramrod-pipes, engraved silver fore-end caps, and silver-tipped ramrods (one stock repaired and with slight worm, one lock retaining screw defective), circa 1650, almost certainly Dutch

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A PAIR OF WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with plain barrels of hog's back form and struck with barrelsmith's mark, a dagger (similar to Neue Støckel 4917) on the left side of the breech, rounded locks retained by three screws, and each with small pierced gilt-brass wheel-retaining bracket, and gilt pan-cover release button with cherub-mask terminal (one button missing), pearwood full stocks inlaid with silver wire scrolls, stars and dots, and opposite the lock with a vacant armorial shield surmounted by a coronet, fluted silver pommels terminating in an embossed central rosette, small turned silver ramrod-pipes, engraved silver fore-end caps, and silver-tipped ramrods (one stock repaired and with slight worm, one lock retaining screw defective), circa 1650, almost certainly Dutch
28¼ [E.473 S.9,10] (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. a pair of pistols with the same barrelsmith's mark and similar silver inlay in the Wrangel Armoury, Skokloster, No.5695/6, illustrated in Meyerson and Rangström, pp.275-6
28¼in. [E.473, S.9,10]

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