antique arms, armour & militaria - Thomas Del Mar Ltd

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A 28 BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK PISTOL, CIRCA 1580,
PROBABLY NUREMBERG
with swamped barrel formed in two stages, stamped at
the breech with the barrelsmith’s mark and initials ‘H. R.’
(Neue Støckel 5497 and 8162), flat lock fitted with internal
wheel, raised wheel-cover, sliding pan-cover (bent) with
button release, safety-catch, and dog with engraved
spring, one lock retaining screw missing), figured
fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid in staghorn over the
rear portion with scrolling tendrils and ball flowers within
segmental lines, above the lock with a panel of
conventional foliage and a bouquet of fruit behind, and a
scrollwork plaque on the fore-end (losses, the fore-end
extensively chipped, the plaques about the barrel tang
missing), impressed beneath the fore-end with a mark,
and steel trigger-guard (ramrod missing)
54.5cm; 21Iin
515
A wheel-lock pistol made for the Saxon Electoral Guard of
Christian II dated 1590 was sold Sotheby’s London 30th
June 2004, lot 127.
£7000-9000
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