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A 48-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOL, AND ANOTHER, OF 54-BORE
THE FIRST SIGNED JOHNSON & COLLINS, LONDON, THE SECOND SIGNED FIDDIAN, LONDON, EACH EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The first with signed brass action engraved with martial trophies and with raised brass pan, rollers, thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel, folding trigger, chequered butt, and brass escutcheon and lion-mask butt-cap; the second with signed engraved iron action (signature worn), and flat-sided walnut butt with silver escutcheon, each pistol with Birmingham proof marks
5in. (12.7cm.) and 6in. (15.2cm.) (2)
THE FIRST SIGNED JOHNSON & COLLINS, LONDON, THE SECOND SIGNED FIDDIAN, LONDON, EACH EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The first with signed brass action engraved with martial trophies and with raised brass pan, rollers, thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel, folding trigger, chequered butt, and brass escutcheon and lion-mask butt-cap; the second with signed engraved iron action (signature worn), and flat-sided walnut butt with silver escutcheon, each pistol with Birmingham proof marks
5in. (12.7cm.) and 6in. (15.2cm.) (2)