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Lot 444
A Very Rare 50-Bore D.B. Side-By-Side Wheel-Lock Holster PistolDutch Or German, Dated 1634
24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £9,600 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Very Rare 50-Bore D.B. Side-By-Side Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol
Dutch Or German, Dated 1634
Dutch Or German, Dated 1634
With tapering octagonal barrels (perhaps shortened) each incised with an 'M' on the top flat of the breech, and each with its own slender tapering tang, flat bevelled locks each engraved 'MM' and fitted with external wheel, engraved cock and cock-spring, and manually operated pan-cover, the front of the right lock dated 1634, stained fruitwood (?) full stock (minor defects and repairs), flat iron trigger-guard, brass pommel chased with interlaced foliated strapwork on a punched ground, short brass ramrod-pipes (one later), unusual sliding safety-catch to the rear of the trigger, and later wooden ramrod (some wear throughout, small hole in right barrel)
34.5 cm. barrels
34.5 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Provenance:
W.G. Renwick Collection, Part IX, Sotheby & Co., London, 18 March 1973, lot 45 (£2,300)
A somewhat similar pistol was also sold from the W.G. Renwick Collection (Part II, 21 November 1972, lot 14)








