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Lot 374*

A 22-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-Off Pistol
By B. Brooke, London, Mid-18th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,800 inc. premium

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A 22-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-Off Pistol
By B. Brooke, London, Mid-18th Century

With three-stage cannon barrel, foliate engraved breech inscribed 'London' along the top, waisted foliate engraved tang, border engraved action signed beneath the steel-spring, trigger-guard engraved on the bow, swelling moulded figured butt carved with foliage in relief behind the barrel tang and inlaid with silver wire scrollwork heightened with silver pins, silver escutcheon with cast and chased foliate border and engraved with owner's crest, and silver grotesque mask butt-cap, London proof marks and maker's mark
12.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Benjamin 1 Brooke was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1717. He is recorded at the Cross Guns, near Red Lion Ct., Holborn where he died in 1760

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