BY EDWARD TURVEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1710

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A Fine Pair of 24-Bore Flintlock Pistols
By Edward Turvey, London, circa 1710
With swamped sighted barrels each signed 'E. Turvey Londini' on the sighting flat and engraved with foliage at the rear of the breech, engraved tangs, engraved flat bevelled locks each signed within an engraved cartouche and with square-cut steels and faceted jaws in the Dutch manner, moulded figured walnut full stocks (minor cracks) each carved in relief with foliage behind the barrel tang and rear ramrod-pipe, engraved faceted iron mounts, side-plates chiselled in relief with foliage and a monster-head, and original iron-mounted wooden-tipped bone ramrods (iron parts with scattered minor rust staining), London proof marks
12½in. (31.8cm) (2)

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 305, plate 122

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Edward Turvey (d. 1714) was apprenticed to Godfrey Tailor in 1682, and turned over to Humphrey Pickfatt. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1690, he was Master in 1713. The barrel-bolts probably date from about 1730

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