SIGNED BUNNEY, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1780
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A 54-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Tap-Action Pistol
Signed Bunney, London, Birmingham silver hallmarks for 1780
With brass side-by-side turn-off cannon barrels (shortened), brass action engraved with rococo ornament, signed on the left side and with sliding thumbpiece to the cut-off on the right (top jaw and screw replaced), trigger-guard safety-catch, swelling walnut butt inlaid with silver wire scrolls (some losses) heightened with engraved silver flower-heads, silver escutcheon, and silver grotesque mask pommel (in worn condition throughout), Birmingham private proof marks
10in. (26.7cm.)
Signed Bunney, London, Birmingham silver hallmarks for 1780
With brass side-by-side turn-off cannon barrels (shortened), brass action engraved with rococo ornament, signed on the left side and with sliding thumbpiece to the cut-off on the right (top jaw and screw replaced), trigger-guard safety-catch, swelling walnut butt inlaid with silver wire scrolls (some losses) heightened with engraved silver flower-heads, silver escutcheon, and silver grotesque mask pommel (in worn condition throughout), Birmingham private proof marks
10in. (26.7cm.)