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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.
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A Rare 60-Bore Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol Stocked By The So-Called Master Of The Castles image 1
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Lot 193*

A Rare 60-Bore Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol Stocked By The So-Called Master Of The Castles
Circa 1600, Almost Certainly Nuremberg

Antique Arms and Armour
24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 60-Bore Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol Stocked By The So-Called Master Of The Castles
Circa 1600, Almost Certainly Nuremberg

With shortened two-stage barrel engraved with symmetrical foliated scrollwork at the girdle and at the rear of the breech, the latter with raised moulding and struck with the Nuremberg mark on the bottom flat (Neue Støckel, p. 1656, 1603), flat lock struck with unidentified maker's mark, crossed swords between 'S' and an obscured letter, and engraved with foliated scrollwork retaining faint traces of gilding on the pointed tail, external wheel retained by a small brass bracket with scallop shell finial, sprung manually operated pan-cover with release button (replaced), and chiselled cock and spring between a baluster bridle secured by two screws, fruitwood full stock veneered in ebony incised with scrolls enclosing mother-of-pearl plaques finely pierced and engraved with hounds and hares along each side of the fore-stock, and opposite the lock with a prone hind and a winged figure firing his longarm at a bird, the underside with a mask, and with panels of scrollwork and ball-flowers on the butt, all within staghorn borders engraved with foliate scrollwork and cabling, ovoidal pommel en suite and inset at the rear with a small gilt-copper filigree plaque, sprung iron safety-lever opposite the lock within a foliate engraved staghorn panel, iron trigger-guard, later scroll engraved horn fore-end cap, and later ramrod
39.2 cm. barrel

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Provenance
Robin Wigington
Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms and Armour..., 9 December 1998, lot 256
Thomas Del Mar Ltd In association with Sotheby's, London, Antique Arms & Militaria, 28 June 2006, lot 433

Other firearms with stocks attributed to the unidentified 'Master of the Castles' are to be found in major collections including the Bargello, Florence (nos. R/64 and M. 235); the Odescalchi Collection, Rome (nos. 11 and 12); The Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (nos. 104 and 130-132); the Victoria and Albert Museum (no. M 1082-1910); the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (nos. 6611 6613); and the Collection of the Princes of Liechtenstein, Schloß Vaduz (no. 3822)

See Claude Blair, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork, 1974, pp. 319-322

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