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BY RICHARD KING, LONDON, CIRCA 1740
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A 22-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-off Pistol
By Richard King, London, circa 1740
With three-stage cannon barrel numbered '1' and engraved with acanthus foliage at the breech, engraved tang, border engraved action signed below the steel-spring, engraved trigger-guard, swelling figured walnut butt carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, pierced side-plate, vacant escutcheon surmounted by a grotesque mask, and grotesque mask pommel, London proof marks, barrelsmith's mark RK
10½in. (26.7cm.)
By Richard King, London, circa 1740
With three-stage cannon barrel numbered '1' and engraved with acanthus foliage at the breech, engraved tang, border engraved action signed below the steel-spring, engraved trigger-guard, swelling figured walnut butt carved with a shell in relief behind the barrel tang, pierced side-plate, vacant escutcheon surmounted by a grotesque mask, and grotesque mask pommel, London proof marks, barrelsmith's mark RK
10½in. (26.7cm.)
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