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An Unusual 38-Bore Flintlock Rifled Turn-Off Pistol
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An Unusual 38-Bore Flintlock Rifled Turn-Off Pistol

SIGNED MARTIN RAYNOLD FECIT, CIRCA 1660-70

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An Unusual 38-Bore Flintlock Rifled Turn-Off Pistol
Signed Martin Raynold fecit, circa 1660-70
Reconverted from percussion, with spirally fluted cannon barrel cut with six grooves, with pronounced mouldings at the muzzle, and engraved with a band of strawberry foliage at the rear, faceted breech engraved with flowers and foliage and signed on the top flat and fitted with engraved pan with integral steel-spring, engraved action formed in one piece with a faceted short fore-end, rectangular tang engraved with a mask, later figured butt with raised panel at the barrel tang and side-plate, flattened spurred pommel engraved with flower-heads, flat side-plate pierced and engraved with entwined monsters, and engraved iron trigger-guard with foliate finial (some further restoration, some surface pitting, mainly on the barrel)
14½in. (36.8cm.)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Martin Raynold is not recorded in the reference books on gunmakers, but a number of firearms with his signature have survived, including a pair of flintlock rifled pocket pistols of similar form and date to the present pistol, sold from the W.G. Renwick Collection by Sotheby & Co., New York, 24 May 1993, lot 300