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AN UNUSUAL 19-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOL
BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1766-70
With two-stage rebrowned twist barrel secured horizontally, octagonal breech with second form of signature (rubbed), silver spider fore-sight and gold-lined touch-hole, shaped detachable gold-lined pan and gold-lined steel, the latter connected to the reversed steel-spring by an open-jawed anti-friction link, signed border engraved action decorated with rococo ornament, cock engraved en suite, grooved thumbpiece safety-catch, engraved trigger-guard, swelling flat-sided figured walnut butt, cast and chased foliate silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, silver grotesque mask butt-cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks, silver maker's mark I.K
15in.
BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1766-70
With two-stage rebrowned twist barrel secured horizontally, octagonal breech with second form of signature (rubbed), silver spider fore-sight and gold-lined touch-hole, shaped detachable gold-lined pan and gold-lined steel, the latter connected to the reversed steel-spring by an open-jawed anti-friction link, signed border engraved action decorated with rococo ornament, cock engraved en suite, grooved thumbpiece safety-catch, engraved trigger-guard, swelling flat-sided figured walnut butt, cast and chased foliate silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, silver grotesque mask butt-cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks, silver maker's mark I.K
15in.
Literature
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 160-161, plates 136-140