拍品專文
These pistols are of a very rare pattern made for firing a charge of swan shot, and are, in effect, blunderbuss-pistols
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BY J. DAYKIN, NOTTINGHAM, CIRCA 1760
細節
An Unusual Pair Of 10-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistols
By J. Daykin, Nottingham, circa 1760
Each with four-stage cannon barrel and action of one piece, the former with raised mouldings and engraved with hounds in pursuit of a stag on the upper side of the breech above the signature (slight wear and pitting), shaped tang engraved with rococo designs, border engraved action with later cock, engraved trigger-guard safety-catch, swelling figured walnut butt carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, silver mounts comprising trophy of arms side-plate and escutcheon, the latter engraved with owner's name 'J. New', and foliate pommel, iron ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks
13½in. (34.3cm.) (2)
By J. Daykin, Nottingham, circa 1760
Each with four-stage cannon barrel and action of one piece, the former with raised mouldings and engraved with hounds in pursuit of a stag on the upper side of the breech above the signature (slight wear and pitting), shaped tang engraved with rococo designs, border engraved action with later cock, engraved trigger-guard safety-catch, swelling figured walnut butt carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, silver mounts comprising trophy of arms side-plate and escutcheon, the latter engraved with owner's name 'J. New', and foliate pommel, iron ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks
13½in. (34.3cm.) (2)
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 123, plate 497
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.