BY HENRY DELANY, LONDON, CIRCA 1720

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A RARE PAIR OF 15-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PISTOLS
By Henry Delany, London, circa 1720
Each with three-stage cannon barrel and action of one piece, the barrels each with raised mouldings, the breech sections octagonal changing to polygonal and each signed 'H. Delany Londini' below the steel-spring, foliate engraved actions and tangs, the latter each with foliate finial, moulded figured walnut butts (each repaired) each carved with foliage in relief at the barrel tang and inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and silver dots, engraved silver trigger-guards, silver dragonesque side-plates (one later), foliate escutcheons, large lion-mask pommels, and baluster ramrod-pipes, and later iron-capped ramrods (scattered minor surface pitting, one cock repaired and with replaced jaw-screw), London proof marks
11¾in. (29.8cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

Henry Delany, a Huguenot immigrant gunmaker, was admitted freeman of the London Gunmakers' Company in 1715. He worked in Long Acre, Holborn, and was nominated overseer of the Huguenot church there in 1722. For further information see J.F. Hayward, 'The Huguenot Gunmakers of London', J.A.A.S., vol. VI, no. 4 (December 1968), pp. 124-5

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