A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with browned barrels lightly belled at the muzzle and signed at the breech, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks each with moulded border (one lock with minor pitting), moulded figured walnut full stocks carved with a shell in relief behind each barrel tang (one fore-end tip cracked), engraved iron mounts, silver escutcheons and side-plates each cast and chased with a trophy of arms in relief, turned iron ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrods (one incomplete, the other a working replacement), by Jonathan Stanton, London, circa 1760
Details
A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with browned barrels lightly belled at the muzzle and signed at the breech, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks each with moulded border (one lock with minor pitting), moulded figured walnut full stocks carved with a shell in relief behind each barrel tang (one fore-end tip cracked), engraved iron mounts, silver escutcheons and side-plates each cast and chased with a trophy of arms in relief, turned iron ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrods (one incomplete, the other a working replacement), by Jonathan Stanton, London, circa 1760
13¾in. (2)
Provenance
E.J. Churchill Collection, Orange Street Gunworks, London W.C.2
Literature
Herbert J. Jackson, European Hand Firearms of the 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries, fig. 101 (plate LVIII)
Lot Essay
Jonathan Stanton was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1747, and Master in 1765. He died in 1766