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Lot 508

A 54-Bore Flintlock Pocket Pistol
Apparently By T. Hawley Of London, Circa 1700

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 54-Bore Flintlock Pocket Pistol
Apparently By T. Hawley Of London, Circa 1700

With turn-off cannon barrel with pronounced muzzle-ring, turned girdle and engraved faceted breech behind a raised octagonal band, engraved tang secured by a screw and extending over the breech, border engraved action (mechanism, cock, steel and steel-spring replaced) signed beneath the steel-spring, moulded finely figured rootwood globose butt with raised 'side-plate' and apron around the barrel tang, and engraved trigger-guard with trefoil-shaped finials (some wear and rust patination overall), indistinct London proof marks and maker's mark
4.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's London, The John A. Williams Collection Of English Pistols, 22 May 1979, lot 57 (described as signed T. Harvey)

Thomas 1 Hawley was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1701. He was Gunmaker to Ordnance between 1682 and the year of his death in 1707

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