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BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1770
細節
A 54-Bore Flintlock Pocket Pistol
By John Twigg, London, circa 1770
With blued turn-off cannon barrel, border engraved case-hardened action signed 'Twigg London' on the upper side of the breech, case-hardened tang, engraved blued trigger-guard safety-catch, rounded chequered walnut butt, and small silver escutcheon: in its cloth wallet lined in chamois leather, London proof marks, barrel-forger's mark of Edward Newton of Grantham
6¾in (17.2cm)
By John Twigg, London, circa 1770
With blued turn-off cannon barrel, border engraved case-hardened action signed 'Twigg London' on the upper side of the breech, case-hardened tang, engraved blued trigger-guard safety-catch, rounded chequered walnut butt, and small silver escutcheon: in its cloth wallet lined in chamois leather, London proof marks, barrel-forger's mark of Edward Newton of Grantham
6¾in (17.2cm)
來源
Discovered in a coat in a Savile Row tailor's shop
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 45-6, 160, plates 92-94
Tom Wimsey, 'Newton of Grantham', J.A.A.S., vol. XVI, no. 5 (September 2000), p. 286
This pistol, presumably acquired 'in the white', and 'finished' twenty or thirty years later, is probably the physical proof that John Twigg was apprenticed to Edward Newton of Grantham, between about 1751 and about 1759
Tom Wimsey, 'Newton of Grantham', J.A.A.S., vol. XVI, no. 5 (September 2000), p. 286
This pistol, presumably acquired 'in the white', and 'finished' twenty or thirty years later, is probably the physical proof that John Twigg was apprenticed to Edward Newton of Grantham, between about 1751 and about 1759
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