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A Pair Of 20-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-Off Pistolsby Segalas, Probably Isreal 1, Londini, Circa 1730
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,600 inc. premium
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by Segalas, Probably Isreal 1, Londini, Circa 1730
by Segalas, Probably Isreal 1, Londini, Circa 1730
With three-stage cannon barrels with pronounced turned swelling at the muzzle and each engraved with two bands of foliage and a band of beadwork at the breech, foliate engraved tangs each with shaped finial (one replaced) extending over the breech, border engraved actions each signed beneath the steel-spring (one replaced, one cock an old replacement), swelling moulded figured butts (minor repairs) each carved with foliage behind the barrel tang, cast and chased silver mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plates each with monster-head terminal, vacant foliate escutcheons, grotesque mask butt-caps, and border engraved steel trigger-guards each with foliate finial (some rust patination overall), private Birmingham proof marks (2)
14 cm. barrels
14 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Isreal 1 Segalas is recorded as an Arquebusier from Navaret, Béarn, France. He was married in 1711 at the Church of the Tabernacle, Milk Alley and, following his death in about 1737, his widow carried on in business at Green Street, Leicester Fields between 1738-45








