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A PAIR OF GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BUILT ON EARLIER BRESCIAN BARRELS AND LOCKS

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BUILT ON EARLIER BRESCIAN BARRELS AND LOCKS
Mid-18th Century
Each with 17th Century sighted barrel cut with a chevron pattern of fluting ahead of a turned chiselled girdle, decorated with a series of patterned ribs over the rear half and inscribed 'Lazarino Cominazo' at the breech, slightly rounded lock with fluted edges, a dragon chiselled in low relief at the rear and inscribed 'Carlo Lerme' (the inscriptions each rubbed), the cock and steel chiselled with leaf ornament (one cock chipped at the comb), carved moulded figured walnut full stocks (one fore-end replaced towards the muzzle), plain brass mounts including spurred slender faceted pommel, solid side-plate and a pair of faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod.
17½in (44.5cm) (2)

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Brescian firearms bearing the inscription 'Carlo Lerme' date from the second half of the 17th Century to the early 18th Century, see Nolfo di Carpegna, Brescian Firearms, 1997, p.188.

Italian barrels and locks were fashionable in German gunmaking within the first half of the 18th Century.

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