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A pair of silver-mounted pistols
with turn-off cannon barrels, border engraved rounded locks signed below the pans (one cock replaced), figured walnut butts (repairs), each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, mounts comprising Trophy of Arms side-plates, escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, grotesque mask butt-caps, and iron trigger-guards, signed GANDON, London proof marks, mid 18th century
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with turn-off cannon barrels, border engraved rounded locks signed below the pans (one cock replaced), figured walnut butts (repairs), each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, mounts comprising Trophy of Arms side-plates, escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, grotesque mask butt-caps, and iron trigger-guards, signed GANDON, London proof marks, mid 18th century
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