AN UNUSUAL 20-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOL

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AN UNUSUAL 20-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOL

BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1770

With cannon barrel and border engraved action in one piece, the latter signed and engraved with foliage (top jaw and screw replaced), detachable pan and steel, engraved trigger, swelling flat-sided walnut butt (repaired), and silver grotesque mask butt-cap (both probably later, light pitting overall, ramrod replaced), London proof marks
12in.

Lot Essay

For a discussion of this type of detachable pan, the purpose of which is obscure, see Jonathan Barrett, 'Six Oddities of English Flintlock Construction', Art, Arms and Armour, vol. I, pp. 393-4. The system was used by at least three leading London firms - Twigg, Wogdon, and Griffin & Tow

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