A Fine Pair Of 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Edmund Giffard, London, circa 1690
With swamped heavy three-stage sighted barrels, the breech sections octagonal then polygonal, signed on the top flat and engraved with a band of ornament at the front and rear, tangs engraved with strawberry foliage, signed rounded locks engraved with further strawberry foliage, terminating in a monster-head on the tail (two cocks and one steel replaced), moulded flame-burnt ash full stocks each with pronounced swelling near the ramrod tail-pipe, and raised apron at the barrel tang (minor cracks and bruising), iron mounts, pierced scroll side-plates engraved with beadwork, engraved spurred pommels each with stepped oval cap, shaped escutcheons each engraved with the crest and coronet of the Barons Leigh of Stoneleigh, baluster ramrod-pipes (one later), and original iron-capped ramrods
21½in. (54.6cm.) (2)
A Fine Pair Of 18-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Edmund Giffard, London, circa 1690
With swamped heavy three-stage sighted barrels, the breech sections octagonal then polygonal, signed on the top flat and engraved with a band of ornament at the front and rear, tangs engraved with strawberry foliage, signed rounded locks engraved with further strawberry foliage, terminating in a monster-head on the tail (two cocks and one steel replaced), moulded flame-burnt ash full stocks each with pronounced swelling near the ramrod tail-pipe, and raised apron at the barrel tang (minor cracks and bruising), iron mounts, pierced scroll side-plates engraved with beadwork, engraved spurred pommels each with stepped oval cap, shaped escutcheons each engraved with the crest and coronet of the Barons Leigh of Stoneleigh, baluster ramrod-pipes (one later), and original iron-capped ramrods
21½in. (54.6cm.) (2)
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