BY HUMPHREY PICKFORD, JR., LONDON, CIRCA 1695

Details

A Fine 70-Bore Flintlock Pocket Pistol
By Humphrey Pickford, Jr., London, circa 1695
With turn-off cannon barrel with octagonal collar and a band of engraved ornament at the rear, octagonal then sixteen-sided breech signed in full on the top flat, engraved with strawberry foliage and with integral tang (retaining screw replaced), rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage and with engraved dog catch, globose moulded finely figured maple half-stock (chipped and repaired) with raised panel at the barrel tang, iron fore-end plate engraved with further strawberry foliage, pierced iron side-plate, and button trigger without guard (iron parts with surface pitting), London proof marks
6½in. (16.5cm.)

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 316, plates 127 a, b

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Humphrey Pickford, Jr., appears to be the same maker as Humphrey Pickfatt, Jr., who was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1688, Master in 1706, Contractor to Ordnance from 1689 to 1721, to the East India Company from 1705 to 1709, to the Hudson's Bay Company from 1698 to 1725, and to the Royal African Company from 1717 to 1721. His will was proved in 1738

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