A 20-BORE FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL

BY GEO. REED, LONDON, CIRCA 1735

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A 20-BORE FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL
BY GEO. REED, LONDON, CIRCA 1735
With three-stage cannon barrel with pronounced moulding at the muzzle, signed border and scroll engraved action and breech, border and scroll engraved tang, figured walnut butt carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel-tang and with worn inked foliate pattern behind the action, silver escutcheon, silver grotesque-mask butt-cap, and engraved iron trigger-guard, London proof marks and Foreigner's mark (heavily discoloured throughout, butt cracked through and repaired, trigger-guard possibly a sliding safety-catch that has seized)
5½in. (14cm.) barrel

拍品专文

George Reed is recorded as working in Rotherhithe from circa 1722 until circa 1744. He was allowed to prove gun barrels as a 'foreigner' in 1729-30, and was a contractor to the Royal African Company from 1732 until 1742.