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BY JAMES FREEMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1730
细节
An Unusual Pair Of 22-Bore Flintlock Turn-Off Pistols
By James Freeman, London, circa 1730
With three-stage barrels, tapering octagonal then polygonal breeches each engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the rear, indistinctly engraved 'London' on the top flat, and signed beneath the steel-spring, foliate engraved shaped tangs, border engraved actions, engraved trigger-guard safety-catches, moulded figured walnut butts each carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased silver rococo escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, a cockerel's head erased, pierced foliate silver side-plates, and engraved spurred pommels of iron each with silver grotesque mask cap (iron parts with some wear and scattered light pitting), London proof marks
13 3/8in. (34cm.) (2)
By James Freeman, London, circa 1730
With three-stage barrels, tapering octagonal then polygonal breeches each engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the rear, indistinctly engraved 'London' on the top flat, and signed beneath the steel-spring, foliate engraved shaped tangs, border engraved actions, engraved trigger-guard safety-catches, moulded figured walnut butts each carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased silver rococo escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, a cockerel's head erased, pierced foliate silver side-plates, and engraved spurred pommels of iron each with silver grotesque mask cap (iron parts with some wear and scattered light pitting), London proof marks
13 3/8in. (34cm.) (2)
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 415, plates 176 a, b
See footnote to the preceding lot
See footnote to the preceding lot
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.