Lot Essay
Joseph Clarkson was free of the Gunmakers' Company by redemption in 1715. See footnote to lot 95
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BY JOSEPH CLARKSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1730
Details
A Fine Pair Of 18-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Joseph Clarkson, London, circa 1730
With slightly belled barrels signed on the short top flat at the breech and chiselled in relief with foliage, the rear of each breech with a stepped moulding and a band of engraved beadwork, silver fore-sights, engraved grooved tangs, signed rounded locks each with moulded border (cocks repaired), side-nails each with engraved head cut for a square key, moulded figured walnut full stocks each carved in relief with foliage near the ramrod tail-pipe and at the barrel tang, full cast and chased silver mounts, pierced foliate side-plates, spurred pommels each with engraved stepped oval cap, fluted trigger-guards with foliate finial issuing from a grotesque mask, foliate escutcheons each surmounted by a mask, baluster ramrod-pipes, and silver-tipped bone ramrods, in unusually fine condition throughout, London proof marks
16in. (40.7cm.) (2)
By Joseph Clarkson, London, circa 1730
With slightly belled barrels signed on the short top flat at the breech and chiselled in relief with foliage, the rear of each breech with a stepped moulding and a band of engraved beadwork, silver fore-sights, engraved grooved tangs, signed rounded locks each with moulded border (cocks repaired), side-nails each with engraved head cut for a square key, moulded figured walnut full stocks each carved in relief with foliage near the ramrod tail-pipe and at the barrel tang, full cast and chased silver mounts, pierced foliate side-plates, spurred pommels each with engraved stepped oval cap, fluted trigger-guards with foliate finial issuing from a grotesque mask, foliate escutcheons each surmounted by a mask, baluster ramrod-pipes, and silver-tipped bone ramrods, in unusually fine condition throughout, London proof marks
16in. (40.7cm.) (2)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 460, plates 207a, b
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.