Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
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384<br />
384<br />
Property formerly in the collection of Friedrich-Werner<br />
Graf von der Schulenburg (1875-1944), see introduction to<br />
lots 13 to 19 and lots 198 and 199<br />
A FINE PAIR OF 28 BORE SILESIAN LONG WHEEL-LOCK<br />
HOLSTER PISTOLS, TESCHEN, CIRCA 1640-60<br />
each with tapering barrel punched and engraved with<br />
sprays of foliage at the breech, muzzle and over the median<br />
(light surface rust and patination), stamped on the left of<br />
the breech with a proof mark, probably Suhl, slender<br />
breech tang decorated en suite, strongly bevelled lock<br />
retained by three side nails, with flush-fitting external wheel<br />
retained by a gilt-brass bracket pierced and engraved with<br />
the Imperial Double Eagle, sliding pan-cover filed with<br />
diagonal fluting at the rear, gilt-brass button release<br />
chiselled with a cherubic head, close-fitting dog with<br />
internal spring, the lower portion filed with diagonal fluting<br />
en suite with the pan-cover, fruitwood full stock profusely<br />
inlaid with staghorn tendrils and pellets enriched with<br />
mother-of-pearl rondels (the stocks with minor repairs,<br />
inlay with small losses), including rabbits being pursued by<br />
hounds over the fore-end, marine monsters, a cherub<br />
playing a lute opposite the lock, doghead tendrils about the<br />
tang, a scroll incorporating a bird-of-prey’s head about the<br />
trigger, and a bird-of-prey on each side of the butt, all<br />
within segmental lines, the butt encircled by a slender steel<br />
band and inlaid with an expanded flowerhead in mother-ofpearl<br />
(one missing), steel mounts comprising trigger-guard<br />
with very slender terminal and a single ramrod-pipe each<br />
punched with scrolls en suite with the barrel, engraved<br />
staghorn rear ramrod-pipe (one missing), and engraved<br />
staghorn fore-end cap, and steel-tipped wooden ramrod,<br />
perhaps the original<br />
67cm; 26Gin<br />
(2)<br />
These pistols are distinguished from other Teschen<br />
examples of this period by their more refined streamlined<br />
locks incorporating partly enclosed wheels and dogs, and<br />
also by the high quality of the inlays on the stocks.<br />
£12000-18000<br />
179
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