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A Spanish 40-Bore Percussion PistolMid-19th Century, The Earlier Counterfeit Barrel Inscribed Diego Esquibel En Madrid, Ann 1719
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £384 inc. premium
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Mid-19th Century, The Earlier Counterfeit Barrel Inscribed Diego Esquibel En Madrid, Ann 1719
Mid-19th Century, The Earlier Counterfeit Barrel Inscribed Diego Esquibel En Madrid, Ann 1719
With two-stage barrel turned at the girdle and with silver spider fore-sight, octagonal breech stamped with seven small silver-lined rosettes and a silver-lined cross, signed and dated in silver script and struck at the rear of the top flat with maker's two silver-lined punzónes (see Neue Støckel 302, 303), all against a punched ground, tang engraved with hatched foliage and with folding leaf back-sight, lock, spur trigger-guard and rear ramrod-pipe engraved with hatched foliage, highly figured full stock with fluted butt, the latter with shaped pommel drawn-up to a blunt oval, vacant white-metal escutcheon, and original ramrod (damaged)
27.1 cm. barrel
27.1 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Diego Esquivel's barrels are the most commonly encountered counterfeit Spanish barrels and despite his death in 1732, his imitators were still using his mark as late as 1750. See James D. Lavin, A History of Spanish Firearms, 1655, p. 139, pl. 98; and W. Keith Neal, Spanish Guns And Pistols, 1955, pl. 14 for a very similar barrel








