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Lot 116*

A Rare Pair Of German 38-Bore Flintlock Turn-Over Pistols
Third Quarter Of The 17th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Pair Of German 38-Bore Flintlock Turn-Over Pistols
Third Quarter Of The 17th Century

With three-stage barrels, octagonal, polygonal, then circular, each with figure-of-eight iron muzzle-ring and released by upward pressure on the trigger-guard, the breech-plates engraved with bands of stylised foliage, stepped rounded back-action locks each now with the signature 'Baroy', the rounded cocks each retained from the inside by an engraved bolt, later walnut full stocks, steel mounts including S-shaped flat side-plates and engraved domed oval pommels pierced with radiating petals, short baluster ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped wooden ramrods (2)
32 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance:
William Goodwin Renwick, Part III, Sotheby's London, 19 March 1973, lot 56
Viktor Monetti, Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 17 June 1993, lot 8171

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