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BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1775
Details
A Fine 28-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistol
By John Twigg, London, London silver hallmarks for 1775
With rebrowned swamped twist octagonal sighted barrel indistinctly signed in script on the top flat and engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear, gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved tang, detented lock retained by two side-nails and with moulded border, stepped tail, and second form of signature, the steel with pan safety-cover released by a stud, two rollers, and divided steel-spring, moulded figured walnut full stock (bruised, minor chip from fore-end) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, full cast and chased silver mounts decorated with shells, flowers and foliage in rococo taste, pierced side-plate, spurred pommel with grotesque mask cap, trigger-guard with floral finial, and horn-tipped ramrod (some light pitting), London proof marks, silver maker's mark of John King
16½in. (41.9cm.)
By John Twigg, London, London silver hallmarks for 1775
With rebrowned swamped twist octagonal sighted barrel indistinctly signed in script on the top flat and engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear, gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved tang, detented lock retained by two side-nails and with moulded border, stepped tail, and second form of signature, the steel with pan safety-cover released by a stud, two rollers, and divided steel-spring, moulded figured walnut full stock (bruised, minor chip from fore-end) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, full cast and chased silver mounts decorated with shells, flowers and foliage in rococo taste, pierced side-plate, spurred pommel with grotesque mask cap, trigger-guard with floral finial, and horn-tipped ramrod (some light pitting), London proof marks, silver maker's mark of John King
16½in. (41.9cm.)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 51, 142, plates 119-120
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.