Hi Taylor,
Many wheellocks that I have inspected in museums and photos have asymmetrical lock panels similar to Raszpla's wonderful pistols. Both rifles and pistols often were designed that way. Raszpla's pistols look like many that are in the arsenal at Graz, Austria. With respect to decoration, an advantage of asymmetry is that the sideplate side is an uninterupted and flat canvas for carving and inlay. Decorators often created designs that covered the sideplate area continuously all the way to the first barrel pin and beyond. That presented wonderful opportunities for the creative mind.
Raszpla, wonderful pistols and thank you for sharing.
dave
