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Thomas 1 Cole was apprenticed to Robert Silke and turned over to Robert Brooke in 1669. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1677, he was Contractor to Ordnance, 1693-99
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BY THOMAS COLE, LONDON, CIRCA 1690
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A PAIR OF 28-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
By Thomas Cole, London, circa 1690
With swamped barrels in three stages separated by mouldings, the signed breech sections octagonal than sixteen-sided and engraved with strawberry foliage, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks engraved with strawberry foliage and monster-heads (mainsprings missing), moulded rootwood full stocks heightened with artificial figuring (cracks and old repairs, one fore-end an old replacement), iron mounts, pierced and chiselled serpentine side-plates, trigger-guards with foliate finial, spurred pommels engraved with strawberry foliage and each with chiselled grotesque mask cap, pierced and chiselled escutcheons, baluster ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped ramrods (some wear and surface pitting), London proof marks
18¾in. (47.6cm.) (2)
By Thomas Cole, London, circa 1690
With swamped barrels in three stages separated by mouldings, the signed breech sections octagonal than sixteen-sided and engraved with strawberry foliage, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks engraved with strawberry foliage and monster-heads (mainsprings missing), moulded rootwood full stocks heightened with artificial figuring (cracks and old repairs, one fore-end an old replacement), iron mounts, pierced and chiselled serpentine side-plates, trigger-guards with foliate finial, spurred pommels engraved with strawberry foliage and each with chiselled grotesque mask cap, pierced and chiselled escutcheons, baluster ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped ramrods (some wear and surface pitting), London proof marks
18¾in. (47.6cm.) (2)
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