Lot Essay
Israel Segalas, Sr., a French Huguenot from Navaret, Béarn, was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1715, and died circa 1737
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BY ISRAEL SEGALAS, SR., LONDON, CIRCA 1740
Details
A Pair Of 20-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Israel Segalas, Sr., London, circa 1740
With swamped barrels each with silver fore-sight (worn), signed 'Segalas Londini' in an engraved loop on the top flat of the breech, and engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the rear, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks each with raised border, moulded figured walnut full stocks (minor chips and cracks, one fore-end with inset repair) each carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang and rear ramrod-pipe, full cast and chased silver mounts, pierced foliate side-plates, spurred pommels engraved with martial trophies, the caps each with a Classical portrait bust, escutcheons with a grotesque mask above and a shell beneath, silver baluster ramrod-pipes, and original iron-capped ramrods, each with worm (iron parts with scattered light pitting), London proof marks
15½in. (39.4cm.) (2)
By Israel Segalas, Sr., London, circa 1740
With swamped barrels each with silver fore-sight (worn), signed 'Segalas Londini' in an engraved loop on the top flat of the breech, and engraved with a band of acanthus foliage at the rear, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks each with raised border, moulded figured walnut full stocks (minor chips and cracks, one fore-end with inset repair) each carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang and rear ramrod-pipe, full cast and chased silver mounts, pierced foliate side-plates, spurred pommels engraved with martial trophies, the caps each with a Classical portrait bust, escutcheons with a grotesque mask above and a shell beneath, silver baluster ramrod-pipes, and original iron-capped ramrods, each with worm (iron parts with scattered light pitting), London proof marks
15½in. (39.4cm.) (2)
Provenance
Acklam Hall, Cleveland, Yorkshire, the seat of the Hustler family
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 446, plates 200 a, b
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.