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AN UNUSUAL GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL FINELY STOCKED IN THE MANNER OF HANS STOCKMANN OF DRESDEN

CIRCA 1600-1610

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AN UNUSUAL GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL FINELY STOCKED IN THE MANNER OF HANS STOCKMANN OF DRESDEN
circa 1600-1610
Built on an earlier barrel and lock, the barrel formed in two stages with swamped muzzle and struck with Nuremberg mark and maker's mark of Peter Danner (Neue Støckel 215), the tang extended by the addition of a brazed long strap, the lock flat and struck with two marks, one 'S' between crossed axes, the other 'GB' divided by cross keys (Neue Støckel 5609 and 2553), domed iron wheel-cover, sliding pan-cover, fruitwood full stock and flattened lobed scrolling butt inlaid with engraved horn rosettes and engraved delicate scrolling horn tendrils strung with ball flowers, and all arranged within plain horn segmental lines, fitted with safety- catch opposite the lock, iron trigger-guard, turned baluster trigger, and the pommel-plaques, ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap each of engraved staghorn (ramrod replaced).
19¾in (50.2cm)

Literature

Alaric and Etienne, Un pistolet à rouet à crosse contournée de Peter Danner, G.d.A. No.344, June 2003.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The stock compares particularly closely with those of a pair of wheel-lock pistols made by Hans Stockmann for Christian II, Prince Elector of Saxony in 1603; see Dieter Schaal,Katalog Dresdener Büchsenmacher 16-18. JH., Dresden, 1975, cat.nos.125-126.

The distinctive inlaid decoration compares also with a pair of snaphaunce pistols by Stockmann, circa 1620; op. cit., cat.nos. 237-238.

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