UNSIGNED, BUT ATTRIBUTABLE TO THOMAS HAMERLITZ, FERLACH, CIRCA 1710

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A VERY RARE PAIR OF 22-BORE AUSTRIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
Unsigned, but attributable to Thomas Hamerlitz, Ferlach, circa 1710
With swamped barrels each with raised interrupted sighting flat engraved with overlapping scales on the forward section and on the rear section with scrollwork and a Classical figure holding a sword, the sides of each breech engraved with a dragon and further scrollwork, brass fore-sights, engraved tangs each incorporating the back-sight, rounded gilt-bronze lock-plates each engraved with a scene of the chase and chiselled with scrollwork in relief on each tail, iron cocks and steels chiselled en suite, moulded figured walnut full stocks each carved with scrollwork in relief at the barrel tang and rear ramrod-pipe, finely cast and chased gilt-bronze mounts in the Italian taste, unusually elaborate side-plates pierced with scrollwork involving monster-heads and a demi-figure, spurred pommels (one minor crack) decorated with scrollwork in relief and with an eagle on each cap, escutcheons en suite with the side-plates and each surmounted by a coronet, engraved trigger-guards and rear ramrod-pipes each with pierced foliate finial, horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped ramrods (comb of one cock incomplete, slight wear and minor pitting on iron parts)
21in. (53.3cm.) (2)

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拍品專文

These highly destinctive pistols can be firmly attributed to T. Hamerlitz on stylistic grounds as they compare very closely with the signed pair formerly in the collections of the G.P. Jenkinson and Clay P. Bedford (see J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. II, colour plate I and pp. 122-3; Wallace B. Gusler and James D. Lavin, Decorated Firearms 1540-1870 From the Collection of Clay P. Bedford, no. 60, pp. 154-5). A third (unsigned) pair changed hands last year in the United States

Thomas Hamerlitz is recorded in Ferlach between 1698 and 1738