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A Rare Pair Of 20-Bore Two-Shot Superimposed-Load Breech-Loading Flintlock Pistols

BY JAMES FREEMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1725

细节

A Rare Pair Of 20-Bore Two-Shot Superimposed-Load Breech-Loading Flintlock Pistols
By James Freeman, London, circa 1725
With three-stage turn-off cannon barrels, border engraved actions signed below the steel-spring, the breech sections octagonal changing to sixteen-sided, large safety-catches, the pans each with silver drum acting as a tap for the two charges, moulded figured walnut butts each carved in relief with a shell behind the engraved barrel tang, cast and chased silver mounts comprising pierced side-plates, engraved spurred pommels, the caps with a Classical bust in relief, and shaped escutcheons with a mask above and a shell beneath, and separate iron trigger-guards each with foliate finial (some scattered light pitting, cocks with some restoration), London proof marks
14¾in. (37.5cm.) (2)

出版

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 416, plate 177

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拍品专文

James Paul Freeman was admitted to the freedom of the Gunmakers' Company on 5 July 1716, and in the same year took over the premises in St. Martin's Lane previously occupied by Andrew Dolep. He was Master in 1732 and died in 1736. Both he and his son James are noted for their breech-loading pistols

For further information see D.R. Baxter, Superimposed Load Firearms 1360-1860, pp. 160-165