with two stage swamped barrel, octagonal breech struck with Nuremburg mark, reblued flat lock retained by two side nails, struck with a mark (indistinct) fitted with external wheel retained by a circular bracket, engraved safety-catch, pan with sliding cover with button release and dog, full stock inlaid with a running pattern of flowers and foliage between segmental lines (small repairs and restorations), foliate panels about the tang, over the spine of the butt and behind the lock, compressed spherical pommel decorated with broad shallow fluted designs, inlaid with flowers and foliage en suite with the fore-end (small losses), iron trigger-guard and slender belt hook, and associated iron-tipped wooden ramrod, 57.5 cm overall

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv.no. 1379

A number of pistols inlaid in a similar manner, with Nuremberg marked barrels, formerly in the Geneva arsenal, are now preserved in the Musée d’art et Historie, Geneva. See illustrated Godoy 1993, 283-287, nos. 149-154.