BY WILLIAM BECKWITH, LONDON, CIRCA 1820
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A Pair Of 54-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By William Beckwith, London, circa 1820
With short turn-off barrels numbered 2 and 3, and each engraved with a band of ropework at the muzzle and signed on two ribbons, rounded actions engraved with scrolling foliage terminating in monster-heads, raised pans, rollers, engraved thumbpiece safety-catches also locking the steels, rounded chequered walnut butts, and shaped silver escutcheons engraved with owner's initials 'JC', London proof marks
5¼in. (13.2cm.) (2)
By William Beckwith, London, circa 1820
With short turn-off barrels numbered 2 and 3, and each engraved with a band of ropework at the muzzle and signed on two ribbons, rounded actions engraved with scrolling foliage terminating in monster-heads, raised pans, rollers, engraved thumbpiece safety-catches also locking the steels, rounded chequered walnut butts, and shaped silver escutcheons engraved with owner's initials 'JC', London proof marks
5¼in. (13.2cm.) (2)