Thuraine & Le Hollandois pistols

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by NeilUK

Hello and a happy and interesting New Year to everyone.
I am researching pistols signed by both the above masters together. Their partnership lasted only a few years, the 1650s - early 1660s and not many of their pistols survive. I know of the pair sold from the Royal Hanover collection in 2005 and a very damaged pair sold at an auction in Shrewsbury, England, in 2009. I would be very grateful for photos or any information of a single pistol sold from a Kunstkammer in Heilbronn a year ago (more or less), and also of a pair sold by San Giorgio auctions, Genoa, Italy in 2010. I have tried contacting the two houses but without success. So if any of you flintlock connoisseurs have access to any photos or other info about these or any other pistols by Thuraine & Le Hollandois which I am not aware of, I would be enormously grateful to receive it. Many thanks.
Neil

Salaams Neil, I saw some detail on https://books.google.com.om/books?id...istols&f=false

and a panel from a French gun(showing a horse) attributed to Thuraine & Le Hollandois

Please see https://books.google.com.om/books?id...istols&f=false on about page 127...128 showing dragon locks.

and a pair of pistols below by the project artists sold but written up as Description: A pair of French flintlock pistols of the second half of the 17th century by Thuraine of Paris and Le Hollandois. Fully stocked in French walnut with 8 (20cm) barrels of 31 bore (.533" calibre). Ornately engraved and pierced silver furniture and Le Hollandois (Adrien Reynier) were gunsmiths by appointment to Louis XIV. Examples of their joint collaboration are known in the Tojhusmeet, Copenhagen, the Musee d'Armes Liege, The Royal House of Hanover (see Sotheby's sale "The Royal House of Hanover Collection 5-15 October 2005 Lots 755, 756, 757) Thuraine's name appears with Le Hollandois on the title page of Jacquinet's Pattern book of gunmaker's designs "Plusiers Modes des Plus Nouvelles Manieres Qui Sont en Usage en L'art D'arquebuserie" published in Paris 1660. the butts with silver monogrammed cartouches of classical figures within ornate borders. The triggerguards in cast silver engraved with a classical figure and trumpet the side-nails supported by ornate pierced silver filigree plates. The three stage faceted and smooth barrels damascened in gold with a standing classical figure and grotesques and "ET LE HOLLANDO" (sic) respectively. Overall length 15.25" (38.5cm) NOTE: Thuraine the pommels similarly gilt and with pierced silver caps the lockplates marked "THURAINE A PARIS" Please note that the barrels and forends have been shortened.