Lot 534
534
AN ALL-STEEL FLINTLOCK PISTOL of unusually small size, with two-stage barrel engraved with a band of flowers, and another of foliage at the intersection and the breech respectively, and cut with straight-groove rifling, signed back-action lock engraved with flowers, foliage and a monster-head, and with rounded tail (sear spring missing), flattened hollow iron butt with separate pommel engraved with foliage and a grotesque mask on each side, turned ramrod-pipes and original hollow iron ramrod with screw-in baluster finial, by Jan Cloeter à Grevenbroch, circa 1660

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AN ALL-STEEL FLINTLOCK PISTOL of unusually small size, with two-stage barrel engraved with a band of flowers, and another of foliage at the intersection and the breech respectively, and cut with straight-groove rifling, signed back-action lock engraved with flowers, foliage and a monster-head, and with rounded tail (sear spring missing), flattened hollow iron butt with separate pommel engraved with foliage and a grotesque mask on each side, turned ramrod-pipes and original hollow iron ramrod with screw-in baluster finial, by Jan Cloeter à Grevenbroch, circa 1660
10¼in. [E.501, S.34]

Lot Essay

Cf. the pair of all-steel pistols in Part I, lot 252

For firearms of this type see Hayward, vol. I, pp.191-2

A very similar holster pistol is illustrated in Kist, Puype and van der Sloot, plates 232-4, and colour illustration facing p.25

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