A 50-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol
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A 50-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol
By Godsall, Hertford, Early 19th Century
With turn-off octagonal barrel engraved with a band of foliage around the muzzle and with a band of silver ropework at the breech, octagonal breech signed beneath the rectangular pan, border engraved action (top jaw and screw replaced) decorated with a differing martial trophy on each side, engraved thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel, folding trigger within a border of foliage, chequered figured rounded butt with silver lion-mask butt-cap, and shaped vacant silver escutcheon (some minor rust patination overall), Birmingham proof marks
4.1 cm. barrel
Sold for £312 inc. premium

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