Lot Essay
For a pair of pistols with somewhat similar pommels see J.P. Puype, The Visser Collection, vol. I, part I, p. 527
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CIRCA 1650, PROBABLY DUTCH
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A PAIR OF 30-BORE WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
Circa 1650, probably Dutch
With slender barrels of octagonal section over nearly half their length, pointed tangs, plain locks retained by three side-nails each with staghorn washer, each lock with rounded tail and domed wheel with a hook at the bottom, sliding pan-covers without release-button, full stocks (one repaired and with partly replaced fore-end), the butts each with domed pommel inlaid with an iron band and scrollwork and dots in iron wire around an oval mother-of-pearl medallion, and iron-tipped ramrods (one replaced)
26in. (66cm.) (2)
Circa 1650, probably Dutch
With slender barrels of octagonal section over nearly half their length, pointed tangs, plain locks retained by three side-nails each with staghorn washer, each lock with rounded tail and domed wheel with a hook at the bottom, sliding pan-covers without release-button, full stocks (one repaired and with partly replaced fore-end), the butts each with domed pommel inlaid with an iron band and scrollwork and dots in iron wire around an oval mother-of-pearl medallion, and iron-tipped ramrods (one replaced)
26in. (66cm.) (2)