Stock Photo - Pair of flintlock pistols Flintlock pistol, Part of a couple. The rooster and the fire steel of the castle are embossed with leaves, the lock plate is engraved with lofwerk, a cupid with a bow and arrow, Cybele in a cart drawn by a lion with four wheels and the signature. The barrel is provided with two pairs of rings as a partition between the different parts of the barrel, the barrel is chiseled on the back with foliage around the rear visor chiseled as a grotesque mask, stamped on the bottom with the arms of Utrecht under an illegible mark, perhaps a rosette. The burr walnut stock is embossed with curls. The iron fittings consist of two chopstick sleeves, an engraved trigger guard, a screw plate with symmetrical open-ended curls that end in human and monster heads, a blank, oval thumb plate framed by curl, and a butt cap with long spurs and carved on the bottom as the head Medusa, the ebony loading stick has an iron cap., Jan Knoop, Utrecht, 1675 - 1685, iron (metal), ebony (wood), cutting, l 49.9 cm l 32.2 cm d 15.7 mm w 1071 gr