拍品 239
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A VERY RARE PAIR OF FLINTLOCK BREECH-LOADING PISTOLS on the La Chaumette system, with signed blued octagonal sighted barrels engraved with a line of beadwork at the breech and cut with eight grooves, gold-lined touch-holes, finely engraved tangs, signed stepped bevelled bright steel locks engraved with a flower on the tail, engraved blued safety-catches, blued top jaws and screws, cock-retaining screws and steel-springs (one cock replaced), finely figured walnut full stocks, bright steel mounts finely engraved with flowers and garlands, tutenag breech plugs, set triggers, and horn-tipped ramrods (blueing refreshed): in contemporary lined and fitted case covered in black leather and studded with brass tacks, with a bullet mould, the lid with carrying handle of Chippendale form, by Jover, London, circa 1775

細節
A VERY RARE PAIR OF FLINTLOCK BREECH-LOADING PISTOLS on the La Chaumette system, with signed blued octagonal sighted barrels engraved with a line of beadwork at the breech and cut with eight grooves, gold-lined touch-holes, finely engraved tangs, signed stepped bevelled bright steel locks engraved with a flower on the tail, engraved blued safety-catches, blued top jaws and screws, cock-retaining screws and steel-springs (one cock replaced), finely figured walnut full stocks, bright steel mounts finely engraved with flowers and garlands, tutenag breech plugs, set triggers, and horn-tipped ramrods (blueing refreshed): in contemporary lined and fitted case covered in black leather and studded with brass tacks, with a bullet mould, the lid with carrying handle of Chippendale form, by Jover, London, circa 1775
14¾in.
來源
The Marquess of Cholmondeley
E.J. Churchill

拍品專文

A very similar pair of Jover pistols, also with five-start breech-plugs requiring two complete turns, are in the W. Keith Neal Collection. See W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 115, plates 433-4