A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF POCKET PISTOLS with short three-stage cannon barrels, engraved breeches and tangs, the former signed below the pans, border engraved actions (two tang retaining screws missing, one top jaw and screw and one trigger replaced), engraved sliding trigger-guard safety-catches, swelling figured walnut butts, and silver mounts comprising vacant foliate escutcheons, pierced side-plates, and grotesque mask butt-caps, by Charles Pickfatt, London, London proof marks, circa 1745, the side-plates and escutcheons with silver maker's mark JA | Christie's

Lot 250

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A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF POCKET PISTOLS with short three-stage cannon barrels, engraved breeches and tangs, the former signed below the pans, border engraved actions (two tang retaining screws missing, one top jaw and screw and one trigger replaced), engraved sliding trigger-guard safety-catches, swelling figured walnut butts, and silver mounts comprising vacant foliate escutcheons, pierced side-plates, and grotesque mask butt-caps, by Charles Pickfatt, London, London proof marks, circa 1745, the side-plates and escutcheons with silver maker's mark JA

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A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF POCKET PISTOLS with short three-stage cannon barrels, engraved breeches and tangs, the former signed below the pans, border engraved actions (two tang retaining screws missing, one top jaw and screw and one trigger replaced), engraved sliding trigger-guard safety-catches, swelling figured walnut butts, and silver mounts comprising vacant foliate escutcheons, pierced side-plates, and grotesque mask butt-caps, by Charles Pickfatt, London, London proof marks, circa 1745, the side-plates and escutcheons with silver maker's mark JA
6 3/8in. (2)

Lot Essay

Charles Pickfatt, son of Humphrey Pickfatt (Junior), was free of the Gunmakers' Company by patrimony in 1719, and retired in 1757

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