Lot Essay
Edward 2 Press (d. by 1719) was apprenticed to Thomas Cosens, and turned over to Robert Silke in 1674. He was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1684, and Gunmaker to Ordnance, 1703-6
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BY EDWARD 2 PRESS, LONDON, CIRCA 1710
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A PAIR OF 22-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
By Edward 2 Press, London, circa 1710
With swamped two-stage barrels with mouded girdle and a moulding at the rear of the breech, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks engraved with foliage and with double-line borders, moulded highly figured rootwood full stocks (one fore-end tip expertly replaced) each with raised apron at the barrel tang, iron mounts including pierced and chiselled interlaced serpentine side-plates, and spurred pommels engraved with foliage, baluster ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrods (some surface pitting, some engraving refreshed), London proof marks
16½in. (41.9cm.) (2)
By Edward 2 Press, London, circa 1710
With swamped two-stage barrels with mouded girdle and a moulding at the rear of the breech, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks engraved with foliage and with double-line borders, moulded highly figured rootwood full stocks (one fore-end tip expertly replaced) each with raised apron at the barrel tang, iron mounts including pierced and chiselled interlaced serpentine side-plates, and spurred pommels engraved with foliage, baluster ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrods (some surface pitting, some engraving refreshed), London proof marks
16½in. (41.9cm.) (2)
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