Item #73011 Click on images to view larger   1690's GERMAN OFFICER'S FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL by Contemporary Gun Maker and Engraver Joel Clark The .54 caliber, 10 inch octagon to round with wedding band slightly swamped rifled barrel, has been 100% engraved and hot browned. The barrel was custom made for this pistol by Ed Rayl. The 1690's German brass pistol hardware is from The Rifle Shoppe. Some of the brass was "wiped clean", and then engraved with scrolls. The English walnut stock is 100% carved and inlaid with custom made Sterling silver inlays and Fine Silver wire scrolls. The Queen Anne Lock by Jim Chambers has been polished, fully engraved, plated with Copper, then Nickel for corrosion resistance, and then silver plated and antiqued. The screws have been engraved and Nitre Blued. The pistols' solid Black Walnut Box has the same hand rubbed oil finish thta is found on the pistol's stock, and is custom fit for the pistol as well as having compartments for accessories. The interior of the box is covered with purple felt. A custom cleaning rod with accessories is included in the box, as well as a small package of lead round balls. CALL FOR AVAIL

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Who is Joel Clark?

Joel Clark is a school trained gun maker and engraver, taught by the famous gun maker, engraver and blacksmith Bruce LePage. After retiring from piledriving, Clark was fortunate to attend the Pine Tech. Gunsmithing Program in Pine City, MN, during the time that Bruce LePage taught there. Clark, who moved to Florida in 1998, found that there was a demand for "fancy flintlocks", both in long guns and pistols, and has been making them ever since. Two years ago Buffalo Bill's Shooting Store brokered the sale of a Lancaster flintlock rifle, made by Clark, to a customer in CT. for $7,500.00. Before the new owner could shoot his rifle, a friend of his that is a Classic Firearms Dealer talked him into selling him the rifle for his collection. That same firearms dealer, Thomas Imperati, The Hunter's Shop, 635 W Main Street, Branford CT, 06405, store phone number 203-488-8550, Cell 203-640-8962, has now put that same rifle up for sale on the Contemporary Longrifle Association's web site. He lists the rifle as "the most ornate rifle I have ever seen", along with a price of $15,000.00

Who is Bruce LePage?

Although a native of MN, Bruce received both his BS and MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He also studied engraving under the watchful eye of a famed engraver, Lynton McKenzie. After graduation in 1975, he opened a studio where he did gunsmithing, engraving and other forms of firearms embellishment and restoration, as well as metal forging and woodworking. In 1980, he was one of 10 Americans selected to represent the United States at the world Blacksmithing Convention in Hereford, England. He demonstrated both engraving and forging at that exhibition.

Also during that period, he taught classes at the University of Wisconsin and the Madison Area Tehcnical College. In 1993, he joined the faculty at Pine Technical College in Pine City, MN, as a Gunsmithing Technology Instructor. In 2000, Bruce gave up teaching and returned to his Gunsmithing, Engraving workbench. Over the years, he has conducted many classes, workshops and lectures on gunmaking and engraving around the country.

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