FLINTLOCK PISTOLS
A FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF POCKET PISTOL with short three-stage cannon barrel, engraved breech and tang, the former signed below the pan, border engraved action, and globose walnut butt carved with a shell behind the barrel tang: in later lined and fitted oak case with some accessories including barrel-key and Bartram copper flask, the lid with Cogswell trade card, by John 2 Hirst, Tower Hill, London, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark, circa 1745; and a percussion box-lock pocket pistol with turn-off octagonal sighted barrel signed on the top flat, engraved white-metal action (hammer repaired), folding trigger, and later swelling wooden butt, signed Aitken, Manchester, Birmingham proof marks, mid-19th Century
细节
A FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF POCKET PISTOL with short three-stage cannon barrel, engraved breech and tang, the former signed below the pan, border engraved action, and globose walnut butt carved with a shell behind the barrel tang: in later lined and fitted oak case with some accessories including barrel-key and Bartram copper flask, the lid with Cogswell trade card, by John 2 Hirst, Tower Hill, London, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark, circa 1745; and a percussion box-lock pocket pistol with turn-off octagonal sighted barrel signed on the top flat, engraved white-metal action (hammer repaired), folding trigger, and later swelling wooden butt, signed Aitken, Manchester, Birmingham proof marks, mid-19th Century
The first 7¼in. (2)
The first 7¼in. (2)