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A FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL
UNSIGNED, LATE 17TH CENTURY
With turn-off cannon barrel (some scarring, muzzle with minor split), the breech with traces of engraving, plain tang, rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage (steel-retaining screw, and steel-spring and screw replaced), highly figured rootwood stock, iron mounts comprising engraved trigger-plate, pierced serpentine side-plate, and pommel with long tang held by tacks and engraved with strawberry foliage, and button trigger without guard, London proof marks
6½in. (16.5cm.)
UNSIGNED, LATE 17TH CENTURY
With turn-off cannon barrel (some scarring, muzzle with minor split), the breech with traces of engraving, plain tang, rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage (steel-retaining screw, and steel-spring and screw replaced), highly figured rootwood stock, iron mounts comprising engraved trigger-plate, pierced serpentine side-plate, and pommel with long tang held by tacks and engraved with strawberry foliage, and button trigger without guard, London proof marks
6½in. (16.5cm.)