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A PAIR OF BRESCIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
THE EARLIER BARRELS SIGNED LAZARINO COMINAZZO, CIRCA 1740
With two stage barrels of peaked chevron section with ribbed girdle surmounted by foliate peaks chiseled in low relief, multi-faceted fluted breaches each signed with stamped letters on the top flats ~ LAZARINO ~ COMINAZZO ~ , tangs with engraved and gilt retaining screws. Locks with cocks, frizzens, pans, and springs chiseled, engraved and gilt with trophies of arms. Lightly scroll carved wooden full stocks. Parcel gilt silver mounts including side plates spurred pommel caps with trophies of arms amidst scrollwork, trigger guards one with helmeted panoply the other a helmeted face, crowned escutcheons with panoplies. Ramrod pipes and parcel gilt tipped wooden ramrods with iron worms. (2)
Overall length: 19 in. (each)
The successful bidder will be responsible for arranging their own shipments or collecting in-person and will be responsible for applicable New York taxes.
Provenance
James M. Hodgson, Washington, D.C., 1952.
With F. Theodore Dexter, Los Angeles, 1953.
Charles H. Moses, Ashtabula, OH, by 1955.
With James Graham Galleries, New York, 1966.
Acquired by Russell Barnett Aitken from the above.
Literature
F. Theordore Dexter, Typescript newsletter, Los Angeles, October 1953, p. 3, no. DX-7, illustrated
F. Theodore Dexter, Forty-two Years Scrapbook of Rare Ancient Firearms, Los Angeles, 1954, p. 253 (illustrated)
F. Theodore Dexter, The Weapons Art Museum, cat. no. 1, Burbank, CA,1955, no. 217, pp. 22, 31, plate 30
Hy Hunter, Hand Guns of the World, 1956, p. 25 (illustrated)
J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. II, London, 1963, plate 77a
Russell Barnett Aitken, 'The Investment You Can Hang on the Wall,' True Magazine, September 1963, p. 63 (illustrated)
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