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The maker is James Paul Freeman, Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1732, died 1736
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A RARE LEFT-HAND FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF POCKET PISTOL
BY JAMES FREEMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1720
With three-stage turn-off cannon barrel, border engraved octagonal then polygonal breech signed below the steel-spring, border engraved action with small safety-catch (cock replaced), separate trigger-guard, swelling figured walnut butt, and cast and chased silver mounts comprising pierced side-plate, vacant escutcheon with small grotesque mask above, and foliate pommel also with grotesque mask, London proof marks
7½in. (19cm.)
BY JAMES FREEMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1720
With three-stage turn-off cannon barrel, border engraved octagonal then polygonal breech signed below the steel-spring, border engraved action with small safety-catch (cock replaced), separate trigger-guard, swelling figured walnut butt, and cast and chased silver mounts comprising pierced side-plate, vacant escutcheon with small grotesque mask above, and foliate pommel also with grotesque mask, London proof marks
7½in. (19cm.)