A SILESIAN FLINTLOCK AXE-PISTOL (FOKOS) with two-stage barrel octagonal at the breech and with full-length flat on the top, plain bevelled lock, brass head with slightly curved cutting edge and pean of rectangular section, straight fruitwood haft inlaid in the Teschan manner with horn scrolls and dots within horn lines, inhabited by birds, animals, profile heads and monsters (small pieces of inlay missing), staghorn pommel engraved with a female profile bust on one side, and on the other with a Turk, and with brass button finial, exposed trigger with brass trigger-plate, and later brass-tipped ramrod, late 17th Century

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A SILESIAN FLINTLOCK AXE-PISTOL (FOKOS) with two-stage barrel octagonal at the breech and with full-length flat on the top, plain bevelled lock, brass head with slightly curved cutting edge and pean of rectangular section, straight fruitwood haft inlaid in the Teschan manner with horn scrolls and dots within horn lines, inhabited by birds, animals, profile heads and monsters (small pieces of inlay missing), staghorn pommel engraved with a female profile bust on one side, and on the other with a Turk, and with brass button finial, exposed trigger with brass trigger-plate, and later brass-tipped ramrod, late 17th Century
32¼in. [E.85, S.14]
Literature
Ehrenthal, plate V
Hoff, 'Die Waffensammlung in Schloß Dyck', p. 133

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This axe-pistol is most unusual in having a brass head

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