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A 25-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol
By J. Shaw Of London, Circa 1680

Antique Arms and Armour and Modern Sporting Guns

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST

London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,600 inc. premium

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A 25-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol
By J. Shaw Of London, Circa 1680

With slightly shortened three-stage barrel, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and retaining very faint traces of maker's name and engraved decoration, engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded cock and lock each finely engraved with strawberry foliage, the latter inhabited by a butterfly and terminating in a grotesque-head on the tail, moulded highly figured rootwood full stock (fore-end partly replaced), iron mounts comprising scrolled foliate side-plate engraved with a central line of beadwork, spurred pommel engraved with foliage on each side (worn), trigger-guard with drop-shaped finial, turned ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped ramrod
30.2 cm. barrel

Footnotes

John 2 Shaw was one of the most distinguished London gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries and was responsible for making a number of fine guns from the gun-cabinet of the Barons of Gunton Park, Norfolk, sold at the house sale conducted by Irelands on 17 September 1980. He was apprenticed in Bristol, but already working in London, 1665-68. Free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1673, he was appointed Gunmaker-in-Ordinary successively to Kings Charles II, William III and George I. He maintained the King's Closet of Private Arms at Whitehall 1688-1702 and, with Edmund Gifford, was gunmaker to Prince Rupert circa 1675-80. He died in 1720

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