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Lot 346

A Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Turn-Off Pistols
By James 1 Barbar, London, Circa 1745

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Turn-Off Pistols
By James 1 Barbar, London, Circa 1745

With three-stage cannon barrels numbered '1' and '2' respectively, breeches numbered to correspond and each engraved 'London', signed beneath the steel-spring (one replaced) and with a band of foliage behind, waisted border engraved tangs decorated with foliage, border engraved actions (defective, cocks fractured, top of one cock missing, top jaw and screw replaced), sliding trigger-guard safety-catches each engraved with a flower-head on the bow, swelling figured butts (one with minor split) each carved in low relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased silver mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plates each involving a grotesque head and centred on a vacant cartouche, and grotesque mask butt-caps (iron parts russet overall), London proof marks and maker's mark (2)
11.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

James 1 Barbar (d. 1773), son of Louis Barbar, was free of the London Gunmakers' Company in 1722, Master in 1742 and appointed Gentleman Armourer to King George III in 1741

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