CIRCA 1585-90

细节

A NUREMBERG ALL-STEEL WHEEL-LOCK SMALL PISTOL
circa 1585-90
With two-stage barrel swamped at the muzzle and struck with Nuremberg mark, flat lock also struck with Nuremberg mark and with maker's mark 'HR', a sun beneath (Neue Støckel 3064), decorated over its full surface with etched panels of differing scrollwork on a granular ground, with etched open-domed wheel-cover, sliding pan-cover with button release, safety-catch (replaced) and the dog pierced and engraved with a monster and a human mask, plain full stock, 'fishtail' pommel of strongly accentuated form, moulded trigger-guard, and later ramrod with baluster tip.
11in (28cm)

来源

William Goodwin Renwick. Sotheby & Co., 19th March. 1974, lot 43

出版

Etienne and Alaric, op.cit.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

A pair of Nuremberg all-steel pistols apparently etched in the same workshop as the present example are in the Royal Armoury, Turin; See F. Mazzini and others, L'Armeria Reale di Torino, Bramante editrice, 1982, No. 327