Lot 618

Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Thursday 7th of April 2022

Johann Jacob Behr, a handsome pair of Dutch early 18th Century flintlock holster pistols, the 35cm Damascus barrels inlaid huntsman, hound and deer, the engraved locks signed I.I Behr, the heavily carved walnut stocks with gilt bronze butt caps decorated grotesques, the trigger guard with winged cherub, the side plates in the form of mythical beasts and the escutcheons with portrait busts of a Queen surmounted by a crown, 50cm overall