hawkeye1755
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A VERY FINE AND RARE PAIR OF SWISS BRASS-BARRELLED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY FELIX WERDER OF ZÃœRICH, circa 1650
The flat lock plates of gilt copper alloy with bevelled borders, a markedly down-curved lower edge and decorated with hatched leaf and foliate scrolls; the angular pans also of gilt copper alloy; flat iron scroll cocks and squat, angular frizzens with internal springs; the locks secured to the stocks by two side nails; full stocks of ebonised fruitwood down-curved at the lock to take the residual wheellock shape, with fluted fore-ends, flat side plates with incised line borders and straight octagonal grips swelling to the ”˜fishtail’ butts and decorated with single incised lines at the borders of each face; gilt copper alloy mounts; the pommel caps each cast with a grotesque human mask in high relief; the stirrup trigger guards springing from the down-curve of the stock, secured front and rear by copper alloy screws and decorated on the underside with cast wave patterns angling away from central axial grooves; scrolling gilt triggers, plain fore-end caps, rammer pipes and tips; no rammer tail pipes; long, tapering, octagonal barrels of gilt copper alloy, the upper three flats engraved at the breech with serpentine hatched foliate scrollwork, the short tangs tapering to a point and engraved with overlapping pointed scales or leaves.
And the price, over £100.000
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The flat lock plates of gilt copper alloy with bevelled borders, a markedly down-curved lower edge and decorated with hatched leaf and foliate scrolls; the angular pans also of gilt copper alloy; flat iron scroll cocks and squat, angular frizzens with internal springs; the locks secured to the stocks by two side nails; full stocks of ebonised fruitwood down-curved at the lock to take the residual wheellock shape, with fluted fore-ends, flat side plates with incised line borders and straight octagonal grips swelling to the ”˜fishtail’ butts and decorated with single incised lines at the borders of each face; gilt copper alloy mounts; the pommel caps each cast with a grotesque human mask in high relief; the stirrup trigger guards springing from the down-curve of the stock, secured front and rear by copper alloy screws and decorated on the underside with cast wave patterns angling away from central axial grooves; scrolling gilt triggers, plain fore-end caps, rammer pipes and tips; no rammer tail pipes; long, tapering, octagonal barrels of gilt copper alloy, the upper three flats engraved at the breech with serpentine hatched foliate scrollwork, the short tangs tapering to a point and engraved with overlapping pointed scales or leaves.
And the price, over £100.000
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