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LATE 17TH CENTURY
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A FINE PAIR OF SILESIAN 32-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
LATE 17TH CENTURY
With blued three-stage tapering barrels each with moulded turned muzzle and decorated with panels of punched and engraved foliage against a gilt ground, tangs decorated en suite, rounded locks each decorated with punched and engraved silver flowering foliage inhabited by a bird (one cock and both steels replaced), walnut full stocks profusely inlaid with white staghorn lines, scrolls and pellets enriched with mother-of-pearl ball-flowers and inhabited by hounds, foxes and hares, iron mounts including spurred pommels decorated with punched scrollwork and retaining some original gilt finish, and white-staghorn tipped wooden ramrods (one rear ramrod-pipe and old replacement)
12¼in. (31cm.) barrels (2)
LATE 17TH CENTURY
With blued three-stage tapering barrels each with moulded turned muzzle and decorated with panels of punched and engraved foliage against a gilt ground, tangs decorated en suite, rounded locks each decorated with punched and engraved silver flowering foliage inhabited by a bird (one cock and both steels replaced), walnut full stocks profusely inlaid with white staghorn lines, scrolls and pellets enriched with mother-of-pearl ball-flowers and inhabited by hounds, foxes and hares, iron mounts including spurred pommels decorated with punched scrollwork and retaining some original gilt finish, and white-staghorn tipped wooden ramrods (one rear ramrod-pipe and old replacement)
12¼in. (31cm.) barrels (2)
Provenance
Graf Lanberg, Oberstjägermeister to Emperor Leopold I (1658-1705)
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 27 November 1961, Lot 180
Christie's, Geneva, 9 November 1976, Lot 114
Sold in these Rooms, 23 May 1990, Lot 278
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 27 November 1961, Lot 180
Christie's, Geneva, 9 November 1976, Lot 114
Sold in these Rooms, 23 May 1990, Lot 278
Exhibited
Berlin International Hunting Exhibition, 1937
Special notice
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