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A Very Rare Brace of 20-Bore Flintlock Constabularly Pistols For The Public Office, Bow Street By W. Parker, Maker To His Majesty, Holborn, Nos. 4925 And 4927, 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 £2,805 inc. premium
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By W. Parker, Maker To His Majesty, Holborn, Nos. 4925 And 4927, Early 19th Century
By W. Parker, Maker To His Majesty, Holborn, Nos. 4925 And 4927, Early 19th Century
With browned octagonal sighted barrels each with a facet either side of the fore-sight, engraved 'Maker to His Majesty Holborn' along the sighting flat and 'Public Office' and 'Bow Street' either side, bright tangs and signed flat bevelled locks, the latter each with rounded tail, safety-catch, pierced cock, semi-rainproof pan and roller, figured full stocks each with rounded flat-sided butt, plain brass mounts comprising flat scroll side-plates, trigger-guards each with pineapple-shaped finial and engraved respectively 'No. 3' and 'No. 16' on the bow, turned rear ramrod-pipes, stirrup ramrods, and in fine condition, London proof marks (2)
11.5 cm. barrels
11.5 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
For a related pistol see Frederick Wilkinson, Those Entrusted With Arms..., 2002, pp. 144-145, fig. 11.4








