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LOT 1257
Extraordinary Exhibition Grade Presentation Cased Pair of Extensively Gold and Pearl Inlaid, Elaborately Chiseled, Raised Relief Carved, and Sculpted Rifled Percussion Pistols from Morgenroth of Gernrode
-A) Morgenroth Percussion Pistol - NSN, 50 cal., 9 3/8 inch octagon bbl., gold/silver/copper/brown/casehardened
finish, walnut stock. This incredible cased set is a work of art from the case exterior to the pistols themselves and even to the accessories in the case and remains in extraordinarily fine condition overall. They have by tradition been attributed as made for the King of Hanover, either Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1771-1851) who ruled as king of Hanover from 1837 to 1851 after the death of King William IV of the United Kingdom and Hanover or possibly his son Georg V (1819-1878) who was king from 1851 until the annexation of Hanover by Prussia in 1866. It is also possible the pair was made for another Germanic nobleman. The castle on the case lid may be Schloss Dyck and the municipality of Juchen in Germany near Dusseldorf, then owned by the princes of Salm-Reifferscheid as the buildings are similar.
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