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Lot 373*

An Unusual Pair Of 54-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By W. Hole, Bristol, Circa 1815

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual Pair Of 54-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By W. Hole, Bristol, Circa 1815

With turn-off cannon barrels (minor rust patination), rounded brass breeches and border engraved actions, the former signed in gothic script over each side beneath the rectangular pans, the latter decorated with martial trophies over each side, engraved thumbpiece safety-catches also locking the steels, folding triggers, figured rounded butts inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and engraved silver flower-heads and leaves, and vacant silver escutcheons, Birmingham proof marks (2)
7.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

These pistols are unusual for being archaic in design

William Hole, maker of the first double-barrelled flintlock gun acquired by the famous W. Keith Neal, is recorded in Bristol between 1811 and 1844

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