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Lot 509

An Unusual Pair Of 50-Bore Flintlock Tutenag Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By I. Hunt, Queen Street, London, Birmingham Silver Hallmarks For 1776, Maker's Mark Of Charles Freeth

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual Pair Of 50-Bore Flintlock Tutenag Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By I. Hunt, Queen Street, London, Birmingham Silver Hallmarks For 1776, Maker's Mark Of Charles Freeth

With turn-off cannon barrels, border engraved actions each signed on a scroll on one side amid rocailles, and with the address on a scroll amid rocailles and flower-heads on the other, a bird above a rocaille behind the cock (one top jaw and screw replaced) on each tang plate, border engraved folding triggers each in front of a sliding safety-catch, figured flat-sided butts inlaid with silver wire scrollwork (minor losses), border engraved silver butt-caps each with a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, and silver escutcheons each engraved with owner's crest above initials 'NN', private Birmingham proof marks (2)
4.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Joseph Hunt is recorded at Queen Street, Cheapside, London in 1774, the same year he was made free of the Gunmakers' Company. He was Contractor to Ordnance between 1777 and 1782

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