拍品 244
244
AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF ALSATIAN LONG FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with three-stage sighted barrels, signed rounded border engraved locks (one cock missing), moulded walnut full stocks, iron mounts including scrolled side-plates, vacant escutcheons, turned ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods (one replaced), by Helbe à Strasbourg, circa 1700

细节
AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF ALSATIAN LONG FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with three-stage sighted barrels, signed rounded border engraved locks (one cock missing), moulded walnut full stocks, iron mounts including scrolled side-plates, vacant escutcheons, turned ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods (one replaced), by Helbe à Strasbourg, circa 1700
28in. [E.517, S.5,6] (2)

拍品专文

Der Neue Støckel records Hans Nicolaus Helbe of Strasburg, son Lorenz Helbe, Master of the guild in 1697, died before 1714

cf. the two flintlock rifles by the same maker, lot 74