Пистоль с колесцовым замком. Европа. 16 век. фото 21-01

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 St�?ckel 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; 21 1/2in A wheel-lock pistol made for the Saxon Electoral Guard of Christian II dated 1590 was sold Sotheby's London 30th June 2004,