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A PAIR OF 20-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
BY KETLAND & CO., CIRCA 1785
With swamped octagonal barrels, silver spider fore-sights, engraved tangs, signed bevelled locks each with large roller, figured walnut full stocks (fore-ends repaired) each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, engraved iron mounts comprising pierced ribbon side-plates, escutcheons, spurred pommels, trigger-guards with acorn finial, and turned ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrods, Birmingham private proof marks
13¾in. (2)
BY KETLAND & CO., CIRCA 1785
With swamped octagonal barrels, silver spider fore-sights, engraved tangs, signed bevelled locks each with large roller, figured walnut full stocks (fore-ends repaired) each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, engraved iron mounts comprising pierced ribbon side-plates, escutcheons, spurred pommels, trigger-guards with acorn finial, and turned ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrods, Birmingham private proof marks
13¾in. (2)