A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOLS with signed brass barrels slightly swamped at the muzzle and each fitted with a spring bayonet on the right, brass actions engraved with foliage, and on the left side with a trophy of arms, rococo ornament and a bird, sliding trigger-guard safety-catches engraved en suite with the actions, flat-sided walnut butts profusely inlaid with silver-wire scrollwork and engraved silver flowerheads, and one original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the other replaced), by George Blake, London, Tower private proof marks, late 18th Century

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A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOLS with signed brass barrels slightly swamped at the muzzle and each fitted with a spring bayonet on the right, brass actions engraved with foliage, and on the left side with a trophy of arms, rococo ornament and a bird, sliding trigger-guard safety-catches engraved en suite with the actions, flat-sided walnut butts profusely inlaid with silver-wire scrollwork and engraved silver flowerheads, and one original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the other replaced), by George Blake, London, Tower private proof marks, late 18th Century
10½in. (2)

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