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A PAIR OF 18-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS
BY RICHARD 1 WILSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1755
With three-stage cannon barrels, the breeches engraved with a rococo cartouche on a martial trophy and numbered 1 and 2, engraved tangs, signed border engraved actions each with raised pan and water-drains, trigger-guard safety-catches each engraved with rococo ornament, swelling figured walnut butts finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork involving martial trophies and carved with a shell behind the barrel tangs, and elaborate cast and chased mounts comprising trophy of arms side-plates, escutcheons, and butt-caps, London proof marks
12in. (2)
