A PAIR OF 18 BORE CENTRAL EUROPEAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY CARL NESTOR IN PRIN, CIRCA 1740
with tapering sighted barrels signed in brass along the flats, engraved with the numbers '13' and '14' respectively and chiselled with scrolls over the breeches (rubbed), the tangs incorporating the back-sights, engraved locks decorated with figures and scrolls of foliage (worn, one top-jaw missing), figured walnut full stocks carved with scrolls about the rear ramrod-pipe and an issuant grotesque about the tangs (one butt repaired), full brass mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plates involving serpents spurred pommels with grotesque mask caps, trigger-guards engraved with scrolls, and a pair of ramrod-pipes, and horn fore-end cap (one missing), and each with its horn-tipped wooden ramrod
35.5 cm; 14 in barrels
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Karl Josef Nester of Graz is recorded as a pupil of his father, circa 1696/9. See Schedlamn 1944, p. 46.
£1800-2500