Lot 196
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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED SMALL BRESCIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with two-stage barrels turned at the intersection and stamped on the breech with a gold-lined mark, a horse within a square, framed by nine gold-lined fleur-de-lys marks, engraved tangs, signed bevelled locks with chiselled details, carved figured walnut full stocks (minor repairs), silver mounts cast and chased with scrollwork in relief and including shaped spurred pommels, escutcheons and side-plates, silver triggers and trigger-plates, and one original silver-tipped ramrod (the other missing): in English lined and fitted oak case with accessories and illustrated trade label of Prosser late Cullum, No.9 Charing Cross, London, by B. Feralgio, circa 1740

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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED SMALL BRESCIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with two-stage barrels turned at the intersection and stamped on the breech with a gold-lined mark, a horse within a square, framed by nine gold-lined fleur-de-lys marks, engraved tangs, signed bevelled locks with chiselled details, carved figured walnut full stocks (minor repairs), silver mounts cast and chased with scrollwork in relief and including shaped spurred pommels, escutcheons and side-plates, silver triggers and trigger-plates, and one original silver-tipped ramrod (the other missing): in English lined and fitted oak case with accessories and illustrated trade label of Prosser late Cullum, No.9 Charing Cross, London, by B. Feralgio, circa 1740
9in.

Lot Essay

These pistols appear to have been cased to order in about 1800. The trade label is the one illustrated in W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment, 1760-1860, plate 244, where it is dated circa 1798-1802

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