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A Rare Flintlock Pistol For Customs And ExciseBy Barnett, London, Early 19th Century
29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £375 inc. premium
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By Barnett, London, Early 19th Century
By Barnett, London, Early 19th Century
With two-stage brass barrel shortened during its working life and engraved 'Customs' along the top flat of the octagonal breech, border engraved tang decorated with foliage, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock with roller, foliate engraved cock, figured full stock with rounded butt (fore-stock and ramrod-pipe reduced), brass mounts comprising rounded butt-cap and border engraved trigger-guard with pineapple finial, the bow decorated with a flower-head, and later brass-tipped ramrod, London proof marks
11.3 cm. barrel
11.3 cm. barrel
Footnotes
For a related pair of pistols formerly in the Dr. Robert Rabett Collection and sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Arms & Armour..., 30 November 2011, lot 540
See Frederick Wilkinson, Those Entrusted With Arms..., 2002




