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A pair of brass mounted flintlock pistols by Johan Jacob Behr c 1740. The butts are of the ball butt type, flat almost straight locks carved with florals, on one lock the remains of the signature I. I. BEHr is visibly, flat side plates in brass, c 32 cm. long two stage barrels inlaid with brass as well as the full makers group in the Spanish style inclusive his lily mark, the tangs are marked 1 and 2, the trigger guards are unusual as they are in thin brass over a wooden arch. The stocks end in large noose caps withe recess for the ramrods, the wooden ramrods is brass dupped.
Johan Jacob Behr was born in Würzburg and worked in his hometown as well as in Wallerstein, Darmstadt, Liege and Maastricht.
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