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BY BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, LONDON, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1748
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A Fine Pair Of 20-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Benjamin Griffin, London, London silver hallmarks for 1748
With swamped barrels retaining most of their blued finish and each with hinged silver fore-sight, inscribed 'Bond Street London' in a loop on the top flat of the breech and engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the rear, touch-holes relined with platinum, engraved tangs each incorporating a concealed hinged iron back-sight, rounded locks each with raised border and signed within a ribbon, moulded figured walnut full stocks (one fore-end cracked) each carved in relief with shells at the barrel tang, full cast and chased silver mounts, pierced side-plates, spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, engraved trigger-guards with first pattern acorn finial, escutcheons with shell above and grotesque mask beneath, engraved silver ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrods, one with worm, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark
14½in. (36.8cm.) (2)
By Benjamin Griffin, London, London silver hallmarks for 1748
With swamped barrels retaining most of their blued finish and each with hinged silver fore-sight, inscribed 'Bond Street London' in a loop on the top flat of the breech and engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the rear, touch-holes relined with platinum, engraved tangs each incorporating a concealed hinged iron back-sight, rounded locks each with raised border and signed within a ribbon, moulded figured walnut full stocks (one fore-end cracked) each carved in relief with shells at the barrel tang, full cast and chased silver mounts, pierced side-plates, spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, engraved trigger-guards with first pattern acorn finial, escutcheons with shell above and grotesque mask beneath, engraved silver ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrods, one with worm, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark
14½in. (36.8cm.) (2)
Provenance
Heydon Hall, Norfolk, the seat of the Bulwer family
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 106, plates 355-357
Idem, Messrs Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, p. 95, plates 36 a-c
Idem, Messrs Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, p. 95, plates 36 a-c
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.