A FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL with three-stage cannon barrel, engraved breech and tang, border engraved action signed below the pan (top jaw and screw replaced), engraved trigger-guard safety-catch, figured swelling walnut butt inlaid with a silver foliate inset terminating in a monster-head on each side of the barrel tang, and silver mounts comprising pierced side-plate, grotesque mask butt-cap, and shaped escutcheon with a mask above and a shell beneath (crest erased), by William Hutchinson, London, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark, circa 1730