BY ISRAEL SEGALAS, SR., LONDON, CIRCA 1730

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A Pair Of 20-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols With Brass Barrels And Locks
By Israel Segalas, Sr., London, circa 1730
With slightly belled three-stage sighted barrels, the breech sections octagonal then polygonal, signed 'Segalas Londini' on the top flat and with stepped moulding at the rear, foliate engraved iron tangs, signed border engraved rounded locks, moulded figured walnut full stocks (minor cracks and chips) each with raised foliate apron at the barrel tang, and pronounced swelling near the ramrod tail-pipe, engraved brass mounts, spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, pierced foliate side-plates, foliate escutcheons each surmounted by a grotesque mask, brass trigger-plates, baluster ramrod-pipes, and later brass-capped ramrods (slight wear and pitting), London proof marks
15in. (38.1cm.) (2)

Provenance

Arthur Rosling, Chelmsford, Essex

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 445, plate 199

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Israel Segalas, Sr., a French Huguenot from Navaret, Béarn, France, was in London by 1702, and free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1715. He died in 1737(?), and his business was continued by his widow, Elizabeth

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