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A PAIR OF 15-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
BY WILLIAM FULLICK, SARUM [SALISBURY], CIRCA 1710
With three-stage slightly belled barrels struck beneath the breech with barrelsmith's mark 'TP', a fleur-de-lys above, engraved tangs, signed rounded border engraved locks each decorated with foliage on the cock and tail (one steel-spring an old replacement), walnut full stocks (one fore-end cracked) each carved with an acanthus leaf behind the barrel tang, brass mounts comprising pierced side-plates cast and chased with foliated strapwork terminating in a grotesque head, cast and chased escutcheons, spurred pommels with groteque mask caps, engraved trigger-guards, and turned ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped ramrods (one replaced, iron parts with some light pitting), London proof marks
14¼in. (2)
BY WILLIAM FULLICK, SARUM [SALISBURY], CIRCA 1710
With three-stage slightly belled barrels struck beneath the breech with barrelsmith's mark 'TP', a fleur-de-lys above, engraved tangs, signed rounded border engraved locks each decorated with foliage on the cock and tail (one steel-spring an old replacement), walnut full stocks (one fore-end cracked) each carved with an acanthus leaf behind the barrel tang, brass mounts comprising pierced side-plates cast and chased with foliated strapwork terminating in a grotesque head, cast and chased escutcheons, spurred pommels with groteque mask caps, engraved trigger-guards, and turned ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped ramrods (one replaced, iron parts with some light pitting), London proof marks
14¼in. (2)
Provenance
The Penruddock family, Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, and sold with a hand-written note to this effect signed by the late owner
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 368, plates 154a-d