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A Rare 54-Bore Rifled Flintlock Pocket PistolBy John 1 Sibley Of London, Circa 1690
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,040 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Rare 54-Bore Rifled Flintlock Pocket Pistol
By John 1 Sibley Of London, Circa 1690
By John 1 Sibley Of London, Circa 1690
With two-stage cannon barrel with muzzle-ring, turned girdle, and rifled with eight grooves, signed octagonal breech engraved with foliage and becoming polygonal, plain tang, signed rounded lock engraved with strawberry foliage terminating with a monster's head above the maker's name, engraved rounded cock (jaw screw probably replaced), moulded highly figured rootwood half-stock with apron around the barrel tang, engraved iron mounts comprising scrolled serpentine side-plate, shaped escutcheon engraved with a helmeted male profile head, spurred pommel engraved with a flowering plant on each side, and button trigger without guard (iron parts with some minor pitting), London proof marks and maker's mark
9.1 cm. barrel
9.1 cm. barrel
Footnotes
John 1 Sibley was apprenticed to Godfrey Taylor in 1684. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1705 and was Contractor to Ordnance between 1686 and the year of his death in 1714. See W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, 1984, pp. 236-7








