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A Fine 70-Bore Flintlock Pocket PistolBy Humphrey Pickford Junior Of London, Circa 1695
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,080 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Fine 70-Bore Flintlock Pocket Pistol
By Humphrey Pickford Junior Of London, Circa 1695
By Humphrey Pickford Junior Of London, Circa 1695
With turn-off cannon barrel with muzzle-ring, octagonal mid-section and a band of engraved ornament at the rear, octagonal then sixteen-sided breech signed along the top flat, engraved with strawberry foliage and with integral tang (retaining screw replaced), border engraved rounded lock and cock each decorated with strawberry foliage, engraved dog-catch automatically released at the full cock position, moulded finely figured maple half-stock (chipped around the tail of the lock, repaired beneath) with globose butt and raised apron around the barrel tang, iron fore-end plate extending back to the trigger and engraved with strawberry foliage, pierced and engraved foliate side-plate, and button trigger without guard (iron parts with some surface pitting), London proof marks and maker's mark
4.9 cm. barrel
4.9 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Provenance:
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 25 October 2001, lot 212
Literature:
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, p. 316, pls. 127a, b
Humphrey Pickford, Jr., appears to be the same maker as Humphrey Pickfatt, Jr., who was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1688, Master in 1706, Contractor to Ordnance from 1689 to 1721, the East India Company from 1705 to 1709, the Hudson's Bay Company from 1698 to 1725, and to the Royal African Company from 1717 to 1721. His will was proved in 1738








