Details
A PAIR OF PRESENTATION FLINTLOCK PISTOLS WITH SILVER-GILT MOUNTS, with rebrowned twist octagonal barrels signed in gold and with gold fore-sights, patent breeches each with gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, border engraved detented locks signed in gold and each with safety-catch, roller and gold-lined rainproof pan (one cock repaired, one steel and one cock-retaining screw replaced), figured walnut half-stocks, flattened chequered butts, trigger-guards cast and chased with a classical trophy of arms in relief, butt-caps with Medusa heads in relief and acanthus leaf spurs, and side-plates in the form of an eagle in a laurel wreath on a scroll inscribed with presentation inscription, the escutcheons pierced and chased with St. George killing the dragon, silver-gilt ramrod-pipes and barrel-bolt escutcheons (one escutcheon and one bolt replaced), and wooden ramrods (one replaced): in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including later flask, the lid with trade label and recessed brass carrying handle, the escutcheon plate engraved with the recipient's crest and monogram, by John Prosser, No. 9 Charing Cross, London, No. 97, London silver hallmarks for 1803, maker's mark RT, probably for Richard Teed
15½in.
Literature
Country Life, 5 April, 1962, p.758
J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. II, p. 226, plates 64c and 69
Exhibited
Willmer House Museum, Farnham, 3-29 April, 1962, No. 25
The Art of the Armourer, Victoria and Albert Museum, 19 April - 5 May, 1963, No. 258 (illustrated)
