with tapering two-sage barrel swamped towards the muzzle, fitted with axe-head at the muzzle end with curved upper edge, struck with a five-point cross mark in a rondel on the front, flat lock retained by two side nails, fitted with external wheel with domed cover, sliding pan-cover with button release, safety-catch and dog with moulded spring (areas of pitting, one side nail and safety-catch expertly restored), fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid with stag and green-stained horn pellets within a framework of segmental lines, further engraved panels including a pair of profile demon masks and a green man mask about the barrel tang, a scrollwork panel forming a side nail washer, a diagonally hatched shield behind, a monsterhead panel behind the lock (some plaques restored), iron belt clip and moulded trigger-guard, and bone basal cap decorated with foliage, 48.0 cm overall

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv.no. 2070

A very similar decorated combined wheel-lock pistol and axe is preserved in the Historisches Museum, Dresden, see Lewerken 1989, p. 209, cat. No. 6.