Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 142
as antime of its being built it was esteemed the most ancient arquebus pistol of the latter part of the sixteenth century.On the side op-posite the lockappears the motto Alios in serviendoconsume Thismotto is to be foundon a halberd in theMuseum of Artil-lery in Paris, whichalso has the armsof… … 476 THE MAGAZINE OF ART. cipher on this pistol makes it probable that itbelonged to Duke Henry Julius, who succeeded hisfather Julius in 1589. The barrel is beautifullyengraved in a Diireresque style; the brass repousse-work is coarser. The third pistol, on the spectators left, is inlaidand…
