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Lot Essay
Cf. a similar pistol in the Historisches Museum, Dresden (inv. no. HMD: 839), described and illustrated in J. Schöbel, Princely Arms and Armour, p. 161, plate 131 b
A related staghorn-veneered garniture of circa 1670, also in Dresden (inv. nos. HMD: X737/X746) comprises a wheel-lock rifle, two pairs of wheel-lock pistols, a sword, a powder-flask, and a hunting horn (see Schöbel and Karpinski, Jagdwaffen, p. 87, no. 31, illustrated on p. 58)
Augsburg seems to be the likely place of manufacture of most of the staghorn-veneered firearms recorded. One of the pairs of pistols in the Dresden garniture bears the Augsburg mark, and a number of staghorn-veneered rifles are attributed to the Augsburg gunsmith Martin Kammerer, among them that in the 1927 Saxe-Weimar sale, lot 73
A pair of staghorn-veneered flintlock pistols with gilt barrels and enamelled pommels set with stones was included in the sale of the collection of Major Th. Jakobsson of Stockholm, Sotheby & Co., London, 10 May 1932, lot 66
A related staghorn-veneered garniture of circa 1670, also in Dresden (inv. nos. HMD: X737/X746) comprises a wheel-lock rifle, two pairs of wheel-lock pistols, a sword, a powder-flask, and a hunting horn (see Schöbel and Karpinski, Jagdwaffen, p. 87, no. 31, illustrated on p. 58)
Augsburg seems to be the likely place of manufacture of most of the staghorn-veneered firearms recorded. One of the pairs of pistols in the Dresden garniture bears the Augsburg mark, and a number of staghorn-veneered rifles are attributed to the Augsburg gunsmith Martin Kammerer, among them that in the 1927 Saxe-Weimar sale, lot 73
A pair of staghorn-veneered flintlock pistols with gilt barrels and enamelled pommels set with stones was included in the sale of the collection of Major Th. Jakobsson of Stockholm, Sotheby & Co., London, 10 May 1932, lot 66