Lot 1024 - A186 Furniture & Sculptures - Thursday, 27. September 2018, 10.30 AM
PAIR OF FLINTLOCK PISTOLS,
Germany, ca. 1790. Signed ANTON BAUMAN IN MÜNCHEN.
Walnut stocks decorated with flowers, 1 repaired. Octagonal barrels (L 29 cm), burnished, Cal 12 mm, rifled. Signed in silver IN MÜNCHEN, mark AB struck in silver. Sighted barrel. Flat lock-plates and cocks. The plates signed ANTON BAUMAN. Smoothly polished iron mounts. The stocks with Inventory Nos. 33 and 44, and owner's sign "Zwei Fische" ("Two Fish"). Ramrods with horn tips.
L 42.5 cm.
Anton Baumann is documented as a gunmaker in Munich until ca. 1812 . He was also the Court Gunmaker of the Electoral Prince Karl Theodor (1777-1799).
Ref.: Eugène Heer. Der Neue Stockel. Internationales Lexikon der Büchsenmacher, Feuerwaffenfabrikanten und Armbrustmacher von 1400-1900. Schwäbisch Hall 1978. Vol. 1, p. 67.
Ref.: Eugène Heer. Der Neue Stockel. Internationales Lexikon der Büchsenmacher, Feuerwaffenfabrikanten und Armbrustmacher von 1400-1900. Schwäbisch Hall 1978. Vol. 1, p. 67.
CHF 2 000 / 3 000 | (€ 2 060 / 3 090)
Sold for CHF 3 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.