A PAIR OF GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with two-stage sighted barrels, signed flat bevelled locks each with stepped tail, moulded figured walnut full stocks (minor damage, one a working replacement), chiselled brass mounts including side-plates pierced with scrolling foliage involving a monster-head and spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap (one trigger-guard and escutcheon missing, the other trigger-guard incomplete), faceted ramrod-pipes, and associated wooden ramrods, by Matthias Weins of Cologne, early 18th Century

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A PAIR OF GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with two-stage sighted barrels, signed flat bevelled locks each with stepped tail, moulded figured walnut full stocks (minor damage, one a working replacement), chiselled brass mounts including side-plates pierced with scrolling foliage involving a monster-head and spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap (one trigger-guard and escutcheon missing, the other trigger-guard incomplete), faceted ramrod-pipes, and associated wooden ramrods, by Matthias Weins of Cologne, early 18th Century
20½in. [E.520, 533, S.33,7] (2)

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For this maker see footnote to lot 345

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