Пара Пистолетов. ударный кремневый. Европа. 18 век. фото 29-01
A FINE PAIR OF GERMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS SIGNED DE GRAFFEN, SUHL CONTROL MARKS, CIRCA 1720
with swamped barrels each formed with a long flat and fitted with moulded brass fore-sights, chiselled with acanthus over the breech and stamped with Suhl control marks and the barrelsmith’s mark (Neue Stockel 4834) beneath, engraved tangs fitted with moulded back-sights, signed locks with strongly bevelled edges chiselled with foliage on a punched ground, engraved with further scrolls on the tail and beneath the pan, the cocks strongly bevelled and chiselled en suite, highly figured walnut full stocks carved with raised mouldings and conventional foliage about the barrel tangs, and with delicate scrolls over the fore-ends, steel mounts cast and chased in low relief, comprising pierced scrolling foliate side-plates, moulded spurred pommels fitted with grotesque mask caps, triggerguards with acanthus finials and a flower on the bows, a pair of strongly faceted ramrod-pipes, and vacant escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, and one with original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the other replaced) 53.2cm; 21 in (2)