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Lot 182

A French 28-Bore Flintlock Pistol
Mid-18th Century

24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A French 28-Bore Flintlock Pistol
Mid-18th Century

With shortened russet barrel chiselled with acanthus at the breech, the breech on one side stamped 'I. Piqvet (sic) together with a barrelsmith's mark, a towerhouse in a shield between lion supporters, plain tang, flat bevelled lock chiselled with panels of foliage against punched grounds, cock (top jaw and screw replaced) and steel en suite, moulded figured full stock (butt bruised and slightly chipped), border engraved brass mounts decorated with rocailles and foliage and comprising shaped flat bevelled side-plate, spurred pommel and trigger-guard with foliate finial, brass ramrod-pipes, and later iron-capped ramrod
24.7 cm. barrel

Footnotes

A Jean Piquet Dit Lafferrière, of the family of gunmakers of that name, is recorded working in Pontarlier, France between 1722-50

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