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A Rare 26-Bore Civil War Flintlock Officer's Pistol
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A Rare 26-Bore Civil War Flintlock Officer's Pistol

CIRCA 1645

Details
A Rare 26-Bore Civil War Flintlock Officer's Pistol
Circa 1645
With two-stage barrel, octagonal then polygonal and with chiselled girdle, short tang, flat bevelled lock retained by three side-nails, with horizontally acting sear, internal steel-spring, dog catch behind the cock, and stepped tail (point missing), the outer surfaces engraved with strawberry leaves, rosewood full stock (fore-end tip replaced) carved with a wheat-ear behind the barrel tang, flattened butt, iron mounts including single ramrod-pipe and later pommel, and later iron- tipped ramrod, London proof marks
21¾in. (55.2cm.)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 132, plates 35a, b
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

According to Neal and Back and to a signed note in the barrel, this pistol was among the family weapons of the Penruddock family of Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, and is assumed to have belonged to Colonel John Penruddock (1619-1655), who was beheaded at Exeter together with Hugh Grove for his part in an abortive uprising against Oliver Cromwell

For further pistols of this type see John S. Cooper, For Commonwealth and Crown, pp. 164-167, 197-207

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