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AN 18-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL
BY JOHN TOW, LONDON, CIRCA 1788
With slightly belled sighted barrel signed at the breech, engraved tang, signed bevelled border engraved lock with safety-catch, figured walnut full stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, border engraved iron mounts comprising spurred pommel, solid bevelled side-plate, escutcheon, trigger-guard with acorn finial, and turned ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrod, probably original (iron parts with some light pitting), London proof marks
13¾in.
BY JOHN TOW, LONDON, CIRCA 1788
With slightly belled sighted barrel signed at the breech, engraved tang, signed bevelled border engraved lock with safety-catch, figured walnut full stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, border engraved iron mounts comprising spurred pommel, solid bevelled side-plate, escutcheon, trigger-guard with acorn finial, and turned ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrod, probably original (iron parts with some light pitting), London proof marks
13¾in.
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, pp. 134-5, plates 64a, b