AN UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOL with brass three-stage turn-off cannon barrel fitted with a spring bayonet beneath, engraved brass action engraved with rococo decoration and inscribed 'Waters Patent' with a crown (cock replaced), engraved thumbpiece safety-catch and sliding trigger-guard, swelling walnut butt, vacant silver escutcheon, and silver grotesque mask pommel, by John Waters, Birmingham, Birmingham silver hallmarks for 1780, maker's mark of Charles Freeth