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Lot 479

A Highly Unusual Pair Of 22-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-Off Pistols With Left-Hand Locks
By Pickfatt, Charles, London, Circa 1740

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Highly Unusual Pair Of 22-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-Off Pistols With Left-Hand Locks
By Pickfatt, Charles, London, Circa 1740

With three-stage cannon barrels each engraved with a band of foliage at the breech, breeches each engraved 'London' and engraved with a band of foliage behind, foliate engraved tangs, border engraved actions each signed below the steel-spring (one cock and one top jaw and screw replaced), sliding trigger-guard safety-catches each engraved with a flowerhead on the bow, swelling figured butts (one repaired) each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang and inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and pellets, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plates centred on a rococo cartouche, vacant foliate escutcheons each with scallop shell above, and grotesque mask butt-caps (steel parts with areas of rust patination), London proof marks and maker's mark (2)
13.9 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance:
R.J. Wigington Collection, Stratford-Upon-Avon

Charles Pickfatt was made free of the London Gunmakers' Company by patrimony in 1719. He was Contractor to Ordnance between 1727-56 and retired in 1757

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