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BY HENRY NOCK, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
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A FINE CASED PAIR OF 20-BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS
By Henry Nock, London, circa 1780
With browned swamped octagonal barrels signed on the top flat and engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear, gold-lined touch-holes, finely engraved case-hardened tangs, signed case-hardened flat bevelled locks each with stepped tail, blued steel-spring (one broken) with linked swivel, and much original blued finish on the internal working parts, figured walnut full stocks, plain swelling flat-sided butts, finely engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guards with acorn finial, silver escutcheons each engraved with owner's crest, original horn-tipped ramrods each with worm, and much original finish: in lined and fitted mahogany case, almost certainly original, with accessories including two-way flask covered in red leather, the lid with brass flush-fitting carrying handle and illustrated trade label for circa 1787, Tower private proof marks
15¾in. (40cm.)
By Henry Nock, London, circa 1780
With browned swamped octagonal barrels signed on the top flat and engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear, gold-lined touch-holes, finely engraved case-hardened tangs, signed case-hardened flat bevelled locks each with stepped tail, blued steel-spring (one broken) with linked swivel, and much original blued finish on the internal working parts, figured walnut full stocks, plain swelling flat-sided butts, finely engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guards with acorn finial, silver escutcheons each engraved with owner's crest, original horn-tipped ramrods each with worm, and much original finish: in lined and fitted mahogany case, almost certainly original, with accessories including two-way flask covered in red leather, the lid with brass flush-fitting carrying handle and illustrated trade label for circa 1787, Tower private proof marks
15¾in. (40cm.)
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