Pair of flintlock pistols, Flintlock pistol with walrus ivory fore-end, Part of a couple. The lock is signed and adorned with foliage and a snake that bites its tail. The barrel is partially engraved with lofwerk, provided with a ring and a drum rim in the same shape, marked at the bottom with MLMA and a crowned rosette flanked by the letters I and R. The flask of solid ivory, presumably walrustand, is simply cut. The iron fitting consists of a loading stick tube, a screw plate engraved with a lying female nude and two snakes with dragon heads wound around her, the trigger guard on both sides, filled at the front with chisel work, and a butt cap engraved with a branch with acanthus leaves and a calyx around the screw in the middle at the bottom, the loading stick has an iron cap, Netherlands, Michel de la Pierre, Maastricht, c. 1660 - c. 1665, ivory, iron (metal), cutting, l 46.6 cm l 30.4 cm d 14.2 mm w 1094 gr
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