A FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL with short three-stage cannon barrel, engraved breech and tang, the former signed below the pan, border engraved action (cock a working replacement), engraved trigger-guard, and globose figured walnut butt carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, by Joseph Buckmaster, London, London proof marks, circa 1750 | Christie's

Lot 54

A FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL with short three-stage cannon barrel, engraved breech and tang, the former signed below the pan, border engraved action (cock a working replacement), engraved trigger-guard, and globose figured walnut butt carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, by Joseph Buckmaster, London, London proof marks, circa 1750

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A FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL with short three-stage cannon barrel, engraved breech and tang, the former signed below the pan, border engraved action (cock a working replacement), engraved trigger-guard, and globose figured walnut butt carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, by Joseph Buckmaster, London, London proof marks, circa 1750
7½in.

Lot Essay

Joseph Buckmaster was apprenticed to William Buckmaster, and free of the Gunmakers Company in 1728. He was Master in 1746 and 1757, and died in 1764

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