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A Pair of Flintlock Officer's Pistols Of Carbine BoreBy W. Parker, maker To His Majesty, London, No. 4896, Early 19th Century
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,295 inc. premium
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By W. Parker, maker To His Majesty, London, No. 4896, Early 19th Century
By W. Parker, maker To His Majesty, London, No. 4896, Early 19th Century
With twist octagonal sighted barrels engraved with a decorative band at the muzzle and breech and each signed along the top flat, platinum-lined touch-holes, engraved tangs including a lion's mask behind each back-sight (one incomplete), signed engraved flat detented locks each with rainproof pan and roller (one roller spring fractured, one safety-catch incomplete), figured full stocks (one with old split in the ramrod channel) each with chequered rounded butt, foliate engraved blued steel trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheons, adjustable set triggers, and brass-tipped ramrods, London proof marks (2)
25.5 cm. barrels
25.5 cm. barrels
Footnotes
William 3 Parker is recorded at 233 High Holborn from 1793 until the year of his death in 1841. He supplied arms to police offices from 1802 and to the Metropolitan Police from 1829








