AN UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOL with turn-off barrel inlaid with a gold band of feathered decoration at the muzzle and breech and fitted with folding lever beneath, gold-inlaid rounded action signed within a gold scroll on each side, folding trigger, rollers, engraved thumbpiece, safety-catch also locking the steel, chequered rounded butt with plain silver pommel, and some original finish, by John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, circa 1825 | Christie's

Lot 67

AN UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOL with turn-off barrel inlaid with a gold band of feathered decoration at the muzzle and breech and fitted with folding lever beneath, gold-inlaid rounded action signed within a gold scroll on each side, folding trigger, rollers, engraved thumbpiece, safety-catch also locking the steel, chequered rounded butt with plain silver pommel, and some original finish, by John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, circa 1825

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AN UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOL with turn-off barrel inlaid with a gold band of feathered decoration at the muzzle and breech and fitted with folding lever beneath, gold-inlaid rounded action signed within a gold scroll on each side, folding trigger, rollers, engraved thumbpiece, safety-catch also locking the steel, chequered rounded butt with plain silver pommel, and some original finish, by John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, circa 1825
6¼in.

Lot Essay

The pair to this pistol is preserved in the Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery (No. '39-65 cas), and illustrated in Claude Blair, Pistols of The World, pl. 319

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