Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN FLINTLOCK RIFLED LONG
HOLSTER PISTOLS BY BARTHOLOMÄUS DAISENBERGER,
MUNCHEN, CIRCA 1750
with two-stage swamped barrels rifled with seven deep
grooves, moulded girdles chiselled with a slender band of
beadwork, fitted with brass fore-sights chiselled as eagle’s
heads and stamped with the gold-lined maker’s mark (Neue
Støckel 7293), engraved breech tangs fitted with moulded
back-sights and number ‘1’ and ‘2’ respectively, engraved
locks decorated with rococo scrollwork, mounted hunters
and signed ‘Daisenperer’ and ‘Daisenperger’ respectively
behind the steel springs, rounded tails, the cocks and the
steels engraved en suite, set triggers, figured walnut full
stocks carved with rococo scrolls and foliage about the
barrel tangs (expert repairs), ‘bird’s head’ butts, engraved
burnished steel mounts comprising solid side-plates
decorated with rococo scrollwork carrying portrait
medallions and enclosing an architectural scene, butt-caps
and trigger-guards decorated en suite, engraved triggerplates,
a pair of engraved moulded ramrod-pipes, horn
fore-end caps, German silver escutcheons engraved with
the crowned owner’s arms enclosed within a collar of a
Chivalric order, and later horn-tipped wooden ramrod
47.5cm; 18N in
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The arms are probably those of von Rechberg of Swabia.
£6000-8000