LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

细节

An Extremely Rare 40-Bore Early English Pistol Barrel
Late 16th/early 17th Century
Of brass, in three stages, decorated with raised bands and retaining traces of engraved decoration, the muzzle flared, chamfered and engraved with longitudinal panels of overlapping scales
117/8in. (30.4cm.)

来源

Christie's King Street, 17 December 1968, lot 134, mounted in an 18th Century pistol by Godsall of Gloucester

出版

Ian Eaves, 'Some Notes on the Pistol in Early 17th Century England', J.A.A.S., vol. VI, no. 11 (September 1970), p. 299, plate LXXIV, C

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

For a detailed discussion of English firearms of the late 16th and early 17th Centuries see Ian Eaves, op. cit., pp. 277-344, and 'Further Notes on the Pistol in Early 17th Century England', J.A.A.S., vol. VIII, no. 5 (June 1976), pp. 269-329