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Lot 587*

A 25-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-Off Pistol
By Joyner, London, Circa 1760

28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 25-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-Off Pistol
By Joyner, London, Circa 1760

With three-stage cannon barrel, breech signed above a panel of foliage and inscribed 'London' beneath the steel-spring, waisted foliate engraved tang, border engraved action (cock associated), sliding trigger-guard safety-catch engraved with foliage on the bow, swelling figured butt carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plate involving a rococo cartouche and profile grotesque head, vacant escutcheon with scroll border, a grotesque mask above and a shell below, and pommel-cap with the figure of Victory seated amid banners within a border of rocailles and foliage, London proof marks and maker's mark
13.3 cm. barrel

Footnotes

John 2 Joyner was apprenticed to Charles Pickfatt in 1747 and was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1773 the year before his death in 1774

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