DATED 1583

Details

A FINE NUREMBERG WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL (PUFFER)
Dated 1583
With swamped two-stage barrel struck with barrelsmith's marks of Peter Danner (Neue Støckel 4251) together with the date, long tang extending to a full-length strap, plain flat lock struck with Nuremberg mark and maker's mark of Hans Stopler (Neue Støckel 1058), pierced engraved flat wheel-cover, safety-catch, brass pan with engraved iron cover with button release , and the dog engraved with profile masks, fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques and ball flower scrollwork between sets of both double and treble horn lines, including a grotesque and a pair of lions in combat opposite the lock, a pair of strapwork panels involving opposing human profile heads about barrel tang, and spherical pommel decorated with a segmented pattern of entwined ball flower tendrils and fitted with roundel cap, the latter finely engraved with a cavalryman in late 16th Century dress shooting a pistol, with moulded iron trigger-guard, horn ramrod-pipe engraved with a half-length portrait of a man, and engraved fore-end cap also of staghorn (the steel parts cleaned, the engraving partly rubbed, minor pieces of inlay and the ramrod each replaced).
20¼in (51.5cm)

Provenance

Miles Standish (Kansas City)

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For illustrated commentary on Peter Danner and Wolf Stopler of Nuremberg see Claude Blair, The James A. De Rothschild collection at Waddesdon manor, Arms, Armour and Base-metalwork, 1974, cat.nos. 121 and 122.

The engraved design for the cavalryman on the pommel roundel is taken directly from an original engraving by Jost Amman (1539-1591), part of a series published under the title Kunstbüchlin (4th ed.1599), originally published in Nuremberg in 1578.

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