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Lot 345

A Pair Of 16-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Holster Pistols
By Benjamin Griffin Of London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1755, Silversmith's Mark JA

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £8,500 inc. premium

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A Pair Of 16-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Holster Pistols
By Benjamin Griffin Of London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1755, Silversmith's Mark JA

With two-stage barrels each sixteen sided to the muzzle, chiselled with acanthus at the girdle and with ovoidal silver fore-sight, octagonal breeches each with gold-lined maker's marks of Juan Perestera of Ripoll and Barcelona (similar to Neue Støckel 8045) and Eudal Pous, the marks within other silver-inlaid marks surmounted by a crucifix, tangs each deeply engraved with a shell and foliage, gold-lined touch-holes, border engraved flat bevelled locks each signed on a foliate ribbon and decorated with a crossed bow and quiver on the tail, foliate engraved cocks, moulded figured full stocks (minor repairs, fore-ends partly replaced at the muzzle) each carved with shells around the barrel tang, full cast and chased mounts comprising pierced side-plates each with a scallop shell and foliage centred on a cartouche, vacant escutcheons with a shell above and a grotesque mask beneath, engraved spurred pommels with grotesque mask cap centred on linked scallop-shells, trigger-guards each with foliate finial and decorated with a flower and shells between border engraving on the bow, line engraved turned silver ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrods (some wear) (2)
26 cm. barrels

Footnotes

For the mark of Eudal Pous see W. Keith Neal, Spanish Guns And Pistols, 1955, pp. 96 and 100, fig. 138

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