Paire de longs pistolets d'arçon à rouet... - Lot 154 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Paire de longs pistolets d'arçon à rouet français faite pour un jeune homme, dans la manière de l'arquebusier royal François Poumerol, en partie vers 1610-15; belle reconstitution à partir de pièces provenant d'un pistolet en grande partie par Poumerol, ayant pour but de correspondre à une paire portée dans les inventaires du cabinet d'armes du roi Louis XIII. A pair of French long wheel-lock holster pistols made for a boy, in the manner of the Royal gunmaker François Poumerol, partly circa 1610-15; a fine reconstruction, built on the component parts of a single pistol mostly by Poumerol, intending to match a pair of pistols recorded in the inventories of the caBinet d'armes of King Louis XIII of France. Each with very slender tapering octagonal barrel lightly swamped at the muzzle, the barrel tang extending as a reinforcing bridle over the full length of the grip and engraved with flowers and scrolls at both ends, French lock with flat plate tapering to a bevelled tail, engraved with the gunmaker's initials F P, a rosette between, the pan also forming a bracket retaining the wheel and engraved en suite with the barrel tang, sliding pan-cover, and the dog with engraved bevelled arm its pivot capped by a fluted rosette, pearwood full stock formed with a simple moulding between the lock and the ramrod-pipe, incised 219 in the style of the French Royal inventories, the butt inlaid with small contrasting ebony and silver wire rosettes picked-out with copper pellets behind the breech and with a further inlaid contrasting device impaled by the main spring pin, moulded fluted drop-shaped pearwood pommel on a white metal collar, inlaid with a band of contrasting rosettes en suite with the stock, segmented by lines of small silver nails meeting at a white metal rosette terminal, iron side-plate, iron trigger-guard cut with horizontal fluting, silver ramrod-pipes cast with bands of scrolls in low relief, matching bands of silver below the muzzle, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod