25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
100
‡ A RARE SOUTH GERMAN 40 BORE WHEEL-LOCK BELT PISTOL (PUFFER), CIRCA 1580-90
PROBABLY AUGSBURG FOR THE STYRIAN ARESENAL AT GRAZ
with blued swamped barrel formed in two stages, engraved with foliage at the muzzle, median and breech, the latter octagonal and struck three times with a decorative flower-head, blued flat lock retained by two side nails with heads on the lock face, fitted with external wheel with domed cover, pan with sliding cover with button release, dog with moulded neck, dog-spring and safety-catch with delicately filed foliate terminals, full stock inlaid with staghorn lines, staghorn plaques engraved with foliage about the tang and a design of scrolling flower-heads over the grip, compressed spherical pommel inlaid en suite and inset with a cartouche at the base, iron trigger-guard, pierced iron belt hook, engraved staghorn fore-end cap and ramrod-pipe, associated iron-tipped wooden ramrod, and the iron parts with blued finish, perhaps original
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no 1382
For related examples preserved in the Landeszeughaus, Graz, see Brooker, 2007, pp. 126-129.
Sold for £6,000
PROBABLY AUGSBURG FOR THE STYRIAN ARESENAL AT GRAZ
with blued swamped barrel formed in two stages, engraved with foliage at the muzzle, median and breech, the latter octagonal and struck three times with a decorative flower-head, blued flat lock retained by two side nails with heads on the lock face, fitted with external wheel with domed cover, pan with sliding cover with button release, dog with moulded neck, dog-spring and safety-catch with delicately filed foliate terminals, full stock inlaid with staghorn lines, staghorn plaques engraved with foliage about the tang and a design of scrolling flower-heads over the grip, compressed spherical pommel inlaid en suite and inset with a cartouche at the base, iron trigger-guard, pierced iron belt hook, engraved staghorn fore-end cap and ramrod-pipe, associated iron-tipped wooden ramrod, and the iron parts with blued finish, perhaps original
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no 1382
For related examples preserved in the Landeszeughaus, Graz, see Brooker, 2007, pp. 126-129.
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.
The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.
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