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Lot 528

A 22-Bore Flintlock Brass-Barrelled Pistol
By Bass, London, Late 18th Century

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 22-Bore Flintlock Brass-Barrelled Pistol
By Bass, London, Late 18th Century

With slightly swamped barrel engraved 'London' within an elongated loop on the top flat at the breech (tang pitted), russet signed border engraved flat lock and cock (steel missing), figured full stock (some old bruising), border engraved brass mounts comprising shaped side-plate, spurred pommel decorated with a flower-head on both sides, trigger-guard with acorn finial and a flower-head on the bow, and later horn-tipped wooden ramrod (rear ramrod-pipe split, the other incomplete), Tower private proof marks
23.4 cm. barrel

Footnotes

John Bass was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1761. He was in partnership with his uncle, John Fox Twigg, as Twigg & Bass between 1788 and 1790. He worked on his own account at 19 Green Park Row, Piccadilly from 1793 until his death in 1794

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