Expo number 148

 

Lock

As Cat. 496 save for the plain head of the cock-spindle screw, which enters from the outside, the triangular frizzles with incipient masks and the absence of an inscription.

 

Barrel

Two, mounted over each other, each with octagonal breech changing to circular, the strap engraved Jan Knoop Vtrecht in script.

 

Stock

In two parts: a forestock fluted on each side, one flute carrying the ramrod, and a short, curved lobe-shaped butt with a lozenge-shaped piece of ivory inlaid in the extreme curve.

 

Mounts

Iron and plain, comprising: one cylindrical ramrod-pipe and a rounded trigger-guard, which has to be pulled well back in order to unlock the barrel-rotating mechanism; iron-tipped ramrod.

 

Remarks

(MAKER) For Jan Knoop, cf. Cat. 148.

(STYLE) According to Van der Sloot, who could not compare the pair pistol HV- 727 since it was acquired subsequently by Mr Visser, the shape of the grip is unusual for the estimated period of manufacture and probably results from a later modification in its working life.

 

Provenance

(HV-153) Dr Walter A. Stryker.

 

Literature

-(HV- 153) Van der Sloot (1978) No. 235

 

Exhibited at

(HV- 153) Stedelijk Museum `De Lakenhal', Leiden, July-Sept. 1978.