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A PAIR OF 18-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOLS
BY JOVER & SON, LONDON, CIRCA, 1785
With lightly belled brass two-stage sighted barrels each engraved with a broad band of foliage in front of the turned girdle, octagonal breeches, signed border engraved brass actions decorated with a martial trophy on each side, thumbpiece safety-catches also locking the steels, engraved brass trigger-guards, figured walnut butts with engraved flat silver pommels, border engraved silver escutcheons, and horn-tipped ramrods (one pistol partially re-engraved and with several parts replaced), Tower private proof marks
13½in. (2)
BY JOVER & SON, LONDON, CIRCA, 1785
With lightly belled brass two-stage sighted barrels each engraved with a broad band of foliage in front of the turned girdle, octagonal breeches, signed border engraved brass actions decorated with a martial trophy on each side, thumbpiece safety-catches also locking the steels, engraved brass trigger-guards, figured walnut butts with engraved flat silver pommels, border engraved silver escutcheons, and horn-tipped ramrods (one pistol partially re-engraved and with several parts replaced), Tower private proof marks
13½in. (2)
Literature
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 123-124. plate 503