LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Details

An Extremely Rare 40-Bore Early English Pistol Barrel
Late 16th/early 17th Century
Of brass, in three stages, decorated with raised bands and retaining traces of engraved decoration, the muzzle flared, chamfered and engraved with longitudinal panels of overlapping scales
117/8in. (30.4cm.)

Provenance

Christie's King Street, 17 December 1968, lot 134, mounted in an 18th Century pistol by Godsall of Gloucester

Literature

Ian Eaves, 'Some Notes on the Pistol in Early 17th Century England', J.A.A.S., vol. VI, no. 11 (September 1970), p. 299, plate LXXIV, C

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For a detailed discussion of English firearms of the late 16th and early 17th Centuries see Ian Eaves, op. cit., pp. 277-344, and 'Further Notes on the Pistol in Early 17th Century England', J.A.A.S., vol. VIII, no. 5 (June 1976), pp. 269-329

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