拍品專文
This is one of the earliest recorded firearms by John Twigg
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BY JOHN TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1760-65
細節
A 24-Bore Flintlock Coachman's Pistol
By John Twigg, London, circa 1760-65
With three-stage barrel (lightly pitted) engraved 'London' on the breech and with a moulded band at the rear, plain tang, rounded lock retained by two side-nails and with first form of signature, figured walnut full stock with a raised teardrop behind the barrel tang and a swelling near the ramrod-entry, brass trigger-guard engraved on the bow with the number '1', single baluster ramrod-pipe, and brass-capped wooden ramrod, London proof marks, barrel-forger's mark IB, a fleur-de-lys above
13in. (33cm.)
By John Twigg, London, circa 1760-65
With three-stage barrel (lightly pitted) engraved 'London' on the breech and with a moulded band at the rear, plain tang, rounded lock retained by two side-nails and with first form of signature, figured walnut full stock with a raised teardrop behind the barrel tang and a swelling near the ramrod-entry, brass trigger-guard engraved on the bow with the number '1', single baluster ramrod-pipe, and brass-capped wooden ramrod, London proof marks, barrel-forger's mark IB, a fleur-de-lys above
13in. (33cm.)
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 47, 159, plate 99
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.