CIRCA 1721-27

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A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY D. MCKENZIE, LONDON
Circa 1721-27
With two-stage cannon barrels, the breeches engraved with a band of foliage and signed below the steel-springs, engraved separate breech tangs, border-engraved actions, swelling figured walnut butts moulded about the breech tangs, separate iron trigger-guards and silver grotesque mask butt-caps, silver pierced scrolling side-plates and decorated escutcheons all cast in low relief (one tang finial and one trigger-guard finial each chipped), London proof marks and Foreigner's mark.
13in (33cm) (2)

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Lot Essay

In 1721 Duncan McKenzie had firearms seized for being 'proved without any gunmaker's mark'. He was subsequently allowed to prove guns as a 'Foreigner'. On the present pistol the proof marks and Foreigner's mark are concealed beneath the trigger-guard finials.

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