A SILESIAN FLINTLOCK AXE-PISTOL (FOKOS) with flat bevelled lock retaining traces of punched decoration, originally picked out in silver (top jaw and screw replaced), the barrel and axe-head decorated with patterns of punched dots, the former cut with overlapping scales in relief at the breech (tang repaired), straight walnut haft (repaired) inlaid with staghorn lines, scrolls and dots inhabited by staghorn panels engraved in the Teschian manner with animals, monsters, and profile heads, staghorn pommel engraved with a profile bust on each side, button trigger, iron ring for suspension, and iron-tipped ramrod, late 17th Century | Christie's

拍品 141

141

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A SILESIAN FLINTLOCK AXE-PISTOL (FOKOS) with flat bevelled lock retaining traces of punched decoration, originally picked out in silver (top jaw and screw replaced), the barrel and axe-head decorated with patterns of punched dots, the former cut with overlapping scales in relief at the breech (tang repaired), straight walnut haft (repaired) inlaid with staghorn lines, scrolls and dots inhabited by staghorn panels engraved in the Teschian manner with animals, monsters, and profile heads, staghorn pommel engraved with a profile bust on each side, button trigger, iron ring for suspension, and iron-tipped ramrod, late 17th Century

細節

A SILESIAN FLINTLOCK AXE-PISTOL (FOKOS) with flat bevelled lock retaining traces of punched decoration, originally picked out in silver (top jaw and screw replaced), the barrel and axe-head decorated with patterns of punched dots, the former cut with overlapping scales in relief at the breech (tang repaired), straight walnut haft (repaired) inlaid with staghorn lines, scrolls and dots inhabited by staghorn panels engraved in the Teschian manner with animals, monsters, and profile heads, staghorn pommel engraved with a profile bust on each side, button trigger, iron ring for suspension, and iron-tipped ramrod, late 17th Century
32in.

來源

The Earl of Meath, Christie's, 21 October, 1987, lot 219