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A 22-Bore Flintlock Turn-Off PistolBy T. Richards Of Birmingham, Mid-18th Century
28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,440 inc. premium
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By T. Richards Of Birmingham, Mid-18th Century
By T. Richards Of Birmingham, Mid-18th Century
With three-stage cannon barrel, breech engraved with a band of foliage at the rear, waisted slender tang engraved with foliage, border engraved action (top of cock replaced) signed beneath the steel-spring, trigger-guard engraved on the bow, highly figured swelling butt finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and pins opposite the lock and along the back, and silver grotesque mask butt-cap, private Birmingham proof marks and maker's mark
13.3 cm. barrel
13.3 cm. barrel
Footnotes
T. Richards was the principle maker of the remarkable collection of eighty guns, pistols and blunderbusses assembled by the country squire William Palling of Brownshill, Gloucestershire, described in W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, 1975, pp. 118-120








