A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with three-stage barrels lightly belled at the muzzle, engraved tangs, signed rounded border engraved locks, figured walnut full stocks with raised apron behind each barrel tang, lightly engraved brass mounts including spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, trophy of arms side-plates and escutcheons, turned ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped wooden ramrods, signed Jeffryes, London, London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of John Bumford, circa 1750

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A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with three-stage barrels lightly belled at the muzzle, engraved tangs, signed rounded border engraved locks, figured walnut full stocks with raised apron behind each barrel tang, lightly engraved brass mounts including spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, trophy of arms side-plates and escutcheons, turned ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped wooden ramrods, signed Jeffryes, London, London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of John Bumford, circa 1750
14in. (2)

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John 2 Jeffryes was apprenticed to John Bumford in 1749, and free of the Gunmakers Co. in 1751

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