A 50-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOL

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A 50-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOL

BY T. RICHARDS, BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1740

With turn-off cannon barrel, signed border engraved action sparsely decorated with foliage, engraved top-strap secured by a transverse pin, engraved trigger-guard, and flat-sided walnut butt, Birmingham private proof marks
8in.
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540 - 1740, p. 474, plates 219a, b

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