A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS with three-stage cannon barrels, signed and engraved octagonal breeches, border engraved actions, walnut butts each carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, grotesque mask butt-caps, pierced side-plates, vacant escutcheons with a grotesque mask above and a shell beneath, and separate iron trigger-guards (some wear throughout, one top jaw and screw replaced), by I. Shimel, circa 1740