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Lot 372
A Rare Pair Of Small 80-Bore Flintlock Tutenag Box-Lock Pocket PistolsBy Waters, Probably John Of Birmingham, Circa 1780
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,275 inc. premium
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By Waters, Probably John Of Birmingham, Circa 1780
By Waters, Probably John Of Birmingham, Circa 1780
With turn-off cannon barrels, border engraved actions each signed on a foliated scroll on one side and decorated with a scallop shell and foliage on the other, ring-neck cocks, sliding trigger-guard safety-catches each engraved with a flower-head on the bow, and figured flat-sided butts inlaid with silver wire scrollwork (minor losses) and rocailles, the breeches each stamped 'PRO' and 'VED' (2)
4 cm. barrels
4 cm. barrels
Footnotes
The maker is probably John Waters of Birmingham, generally credited with the invention of the sprung bayonet for which he was granted British Patent No. 1824 on 9 March 1781 for attaching bayonets to pistols








