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A 32-Bore Flintlock Pocket Pistol
By D. Toillier, London, Circa 1725

Antique Arms and Armour
28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 32-Bore Flintlock Pocket Pistol
By D. Toillier, London, Circa 1725

With two-stage turn-off cannon barrel engraved with a band of foliage at the rear, the breech engraved en suite, foliate engraved tang secured by a screw and with trefoil-shaped finial over the breech, border engraved action signed beneath the steel-spring (top jaw and screw replaced), moulded figured globuse butt with raised 'side-plate' and carved foliage around the tang, and trigger-guard with trefoil-shaped finial and engraved with foliage on the bow (some pitting in places), London proof marks and Foreigner's mark
5.7 cm. barrel

Footnotes

David Toillier is recorded as a gunmaker at Little Minories in 1703. He was a member of the French Church and was granted naturalisation in 1709. He was allowed to prove guns by the Gunmakers' Company as a 'foreigner' between 1721-31

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