Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols with Accessories

Signature: Signed in script on the lock: Pirmet Argr à Paris.

Inscription:

Marking: Marked on the lower side of the butt and lock-plate: 1. cock and figure 1, in chamfered recatngle (Cf. Beuque. Dict. des poinçons, no. 657). 2. Lozenge with N/B, pistol between (Maker's mark for silver ornament, not identified) 3. head of bearded man with 8 and 5 to left and right (Beuque, no. 1) 4. faces (Beuque. no. 1107).

Ex. coll.: Frederick Sherman Rook; Theodore Offerman.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor," February 6–April 16, 1911, no. 207.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Arts Under Napoleon," April 6–July 30, 1978, no. 147.

Seattle, Wash. Seattle Art Museum. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 11, 1982–June 6, 1982, no. 115 (28.196.1-2).

Denver, Colo. Denver Art Museum. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 18–October 10, 1982, no. 115 (28.196.1-2).

San Antonio, Tex. Witte Museum of the San Antonio Museum Association. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 13, 1982–February 5, 1983, no. 115 (28.196.1-2).

Minneapolis, Minn. Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 24–July 31, 1983, no. 115 (28.196.1-2).

San Francisco. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 5, 1983–January 28, 1984, no. 115 (28.196.1-2).

Detroit, Mich. Detroit Institute of Arts. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 4–June 17, 1984, no. 115 (28.196.1-2).

Dean, Bashford, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February the Sixth to April the Sixteenth. New York: Gilliss Press, 1911. Cat. no, 207, pl. XLIII, ill.

Silo's Fifth Avenue Art Galleries. The Rook Collection of Arms. New York: Silo's Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 1920.

Nickel, Helmut. Warriors and Worthies: Arms and Armor Through the Ages. New York: Atheneum, 1969. p. 107, ill.

Hoff, Arne. "Hvorfra Stammer Haneformen Med Spore / Where Did the Spurred Cock Originate." Vaabenhistoriske aarbøger (1972), pp. 95–110.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Helmut Nickel, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Leonid Tarassuk, and American Federation of Arts. The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Exhibition. New York: The Federation, 1982. pp. 169–72, no. 115, ill.