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A PAIR OF 54-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK OVER-AND-UNDER TAP-ACTION PISTOLS
BY KETLAND & CO, BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1790
With rifled turn-off cannon barrels numbered from 1 to 4, border engraved actions decorated with rococo ornament and each signed within a ribbon on the right side, engraved iron trigger-guards, later swelling flat-sided walnut butts, silver escutcheons, and silver grotesque mask caps (iron parts with areas of light pitting, proof marks erased)
8¾in. (22.2cm.) (2)
BY KETLAND & CO, BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1790
With rifled turn-off cannon barrels numbered from 1 to 4, border engraved actions decorated with rococo ornament and each signed within a ribbon on the right side, engraved iron trigger-guards, later swelling flat-sided walnut butts, silver escutcheons, and silver grotesque mask caps (iron parts with areas of light pitting, proof marks erased)
8¾in. (22.2cm.) (2)