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A PAIR OF 22-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS
BY JOSEPH CLARKSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1730-40
With long three-stage cannon barrels, signed breeches, border engraved tangs, border engraved actions (cocks replaced, steels refaced), trigger-guard safety-catches, figured walnut butts (perhaps replaced), silver escutcheons cast and chased with acanthus foliage and with grotesque mask above, and spurred pommels engraved with a border of acanthus foliage framing caps cast and chased with a bearded grotesque mask in relief, London proof marks
14½in. (2)
