A RARE PAIR OF FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with minor differences, with four-stage twist barrels, one with copper-filled maker's mark on the octagonal breech, signed rounded locks engraved with foliage and the initials IN below a grotesque mask on the tail, later moulded walnut full stocks, iron trigger-guards, and copper mounts including rounded side-plates, butt-caps with separate engraved spurs, turned ramrod-pipes, and original copper-tipped ramrods, by Robert Brooke, London, circa 1685 | Christie's

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655

A RARE PAIR OF FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with minor differences, with four-stage twist barrels, one with copper-filled maker's mark on the octagonal breech, signed rounded locks engraved with foliage and the initials IN below a grotesque mask on the tail, later moulded walnut full stocks, iron trigger-guards, and copper mounts including rounded side-plates, butt-caps with separate engraved spurs, turned ramrod-pipes, and original copper-tipped ramrods, by Robert Brooke, London, circa 1685

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A RARE PAIR OF FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS with minor differences, with four-stage twist barrels, one with copper-filled maker's mark on the octagonal breech, signed rounded locks engraved with foliage and the initials IN below a grotesque mask on the tail, later moulded walnut full stocks, iron trigger-guards, and copper mounts including rounded side-plates, butt-caps with separate engraved spurs, turned ramrod-pipes, and original copper-tipped ramrods, by Robert Brooke, London, circa 1685
19¼in. (2)

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THE INITIALS IN ARE THOSE OF THE ORIGINAL OWNER AND APPEAR ON A SMALL GROUP OF FIREARMS WITH SCOTTISH CONNECTIONS. SEE W. KEITH NEAL AND D.H.L.Back, Great British Gun Makers, 1540-1740, PP. 196-202, PLS. 65A-E