A PAIR OF 32-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK PISTOLS ( PUFFER ) STOCKED IN THE MANNER OF THE SO-CALLED 'MASTER OF THE CASTLES' Nuremberg, late 16th Century With two-stage barrels swamped at the muzzle and with damascened decoration on a blued ground (now faded) throughout their length in silver and gold (now worn, more heavily on one pistol than the other) comprising scrollwork and standing classical men-at-arms, on the breech the stamped maker's initials 'FM', a trefoil between ( Neue Stckel 7964), flat locks struck with the same mark and damascened with scrollwork in silver and gold (worn), small wheels each with domed gilt copper-alloy cover cast and pierced with flowers and foliage involving a female mask and covering a steel plate, sliding pan-covers engraved with a male mask and released by a pierced button, pivoting safety-catches, and flat cocks, ebony-veneered full stocks terminating in a large ball pommel below a gilt copper-alloy collar cast with flowers and foliage in relief, the balls each with five concave faces separated from each other by gilt copper-alloy mouldings and with large circular gilt copper-alloy cap cast in relief respectively with the head and shoulders of a man and a woman, each in late sixteenth-century costume, the surface of the stocks inlaid with engraved staghorn lines enclosing shaped mother-of-pearl panels, some pierced, finely engraved with masks, rosettes, and sportsmen, mostly armed and mounted, accompanied by hounds in pursuit of running game after designs by Virgil Solis (1514-1562), and in front of the trigger-guards with two standing Turkish Janissaries, the background filled with tendrils, acorns and ball-flowers in white and green staghorn and mother-of-pearl (the inlay with minor losses and restoration), engraved horn fore-end caps, iron baluster triggers, iron trigger-guards with central moulding, and iron-tipped wooden ramrods, the forward ramrod-pipes of staghorn engraved with a mask and reinforced by an iron band (the latter missing on one pistol) 19 in. (50.2 cm.) (2)
A PAIR OF 32-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK PISTOLS ( PUFFER ) STOCKED IN THE MANNER OF THE SO-CALLED 'MASTER OF THE CASTLES' Nuremberg, late 16th Century With two-stage barrels swamped at the muzzle and with damascened decoration on a blued ground (now faded) throughout their length in silver and gold (now worn, more heavily on one pistol than the other) comprising scrollwork and standing classical men-at-arms, on the breech the stamped maker's initials 'FM', a trefoil between ( Neue Stckel 7964), flat locks struck with the same mark and damascened with scrollwork in silver and gold (worn), small wheels each with domed gilt copper-alloy cover cast and pierced with flowers and foliage involving a female mask and covering a steel plate, sliding pan-covers engraved with a male mask and released by a pierced button, pivoting safety-catches, and flat cocks, ebony-veneered full stocks terminating in a large ball pommel below a gilt copper-alloy collar cast with flowers and foliage in relief, the balls each with five concave faces separated from each other by gilt copper-alloy mouldings and with large circular gilt copper-alloy cap cast in relief respectively with the head and shoulders of a man and a woman, each in late sixteenth-century costume, the surface of the stocks inlaid with engraved staghorn lines enclosing shaped mother-of-pearl panels, some pierced, finely engraved with masks, rosettes, and sportsmen, mostly armed and mounted, accompanied by hounds in pursuit of running game after designs by Virgil Solis (1514-1562), and in front of the trigger-guards with two standing Turkish Janissaries, the background filled with tendrils, acorns and ball-flowers in white and green staghorn and mother-of-pearl (the inlay with minor losses and restoration), engraved horn fore-end caps, iron baluster triggers, iron trigger-guards with central moulding, and iron-tipped wooden ramrods, the forward ramrod-pipes of staghorn engraved with a mask and reinforced by an iron band (the latter missing on one pistol) 19 in. (50.2 cm.) (2)
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