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An 18-Bore Flintlock Pistol
By H. Delany, London, Circa 1720

Antique Arms & Armour

1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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An 18-Bore Flintlock Pistol
By H. Delany, London, Circa 1720

With three-stage cannon barrel (minor surface rust) engraved with three graduated spheres between scrolling foliage on the breech, foliate scroll engraved tang secured by a screw and with trefoil-shaped finial over the breech, border engraved action (cock replaced) signed beneath the steel spring, trigger-guard also forming the turned rear ramrod-pipe, swelling figured rounded butt (repaired on one side) carved with foliage behind the barrel tang, border engraved pierced silver side-plate, cast and chased silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, later silver pommel with foliate engraved borders, and later iron-capped ramrod, London proof marks and maker's mark
19.2 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Henry Delany, a Huguenot immigrant gunmaker, was admitted freeman of the London Gunmakers' Company in 1715. He worked in Long Acre, Holborn and is recorded as a 'Master of the breechloading sporting guns and silver-mounted pistols'. He died in 1745. For further information see J.F. Hayward, 'The Huguenot Gunmakers of London', J.A.A.S., vol. VI, no. 4 (December 1968), pp. 124-5

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