A 40-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL OF SO-CALLED 'QUEEN ANNE' TYPE, AND A 50-BORE FLINTLOCK BOXLOCK OVERCOAT PISTOL WITH SPRING-BAYONET
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A 40-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL OF SO-CALLED 'QUEEN ANNE' TYPE, AND A 50-BORE FLINTLOCK BOXLOCK OVERCOAT PISTOL WITH SPRING-BAYONET

THE FIRST H. PETITJEAN, CIRCA 1780, THE SECOND BATE, LONDON, CIRCA 1800

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A 40-BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL OF SO-CALLED 'QUEEN ANNE' TYPE, AND A 50-BORE FLINTLOCK BOXLOCK OVERCOAT PISTOL WITH SPRING-BAYONET
THE FIRST H. PETITJEAN, CIRCA 1780, THE SECOND BATE, LONDON, CIRCA 1800
The first with two-stage 3.3./4 in. (9.5 cm.) barrel, engraved breech and action, swelling figured walnut butt with silver-wire inlay, and silver grotesque mask butt-cap, London proof marks and foreigner's mark; the second with 5 in. (12.7 cm.) turn-off barrel with spring-bayonet fitted beneath, and engraved trigger-guard acting as the bayonet-release catch, London proof marks
Provenance
The second: Anon. sale, Christie's, King Street, 27 July 1971, lot 74.
Special notice
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