Lot Essay
John Nelson was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1687, and Contractor to Ordnance from 1690 to 1714, to the Hudson's Bay Company from 1690 to 1701, and to the Royal African Company from 1700 to 1702
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BY JOHN NELSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1690
Details
A 32-Bore Flintlock Turn-Off Pistol
By John Nelson, London, circa 1690
With turn-off cannon barrel (minor bruising) with pronounced muzzle-ring and engraved with a band of foliage at the rear, the breech engraved with strawberry foliage, tang en suite, foliate engraved action signed below the steel-spring (cock expertly replaced), bridled pan, globose figured root-wood butt secured by a screw through the barrel tang and with a raised panel at the barrel tang and on the left side, and foliate engraved separate trigger-guard (iron parts with scattered minor pitting)
9¼in. (23.5cm.)
By John Nelson, London, circa 1690
With turn-off cannon barrel (minor bruising) with pronounced muzzle-ring and engraved with a band of foliage at the rear, the breech engraved with strawberry foliage, tang en suite, foliate engraved action signed below the steel-spring (cock expertly replaced), bridled pan, globose figured root-wood butt secured by a screw through the barrel tang and with a raised panel at the barrel tang and on the left side, and foliate engraved separate trigger-guard (iron parts with scattered minor pitting)
9¼in. (23.5cm.)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 212, plate 72
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.