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Lot 320
A Cased Pair Of 55-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket PistolsBy Peacock, London, Circa 1820
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,805 inc. premium
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A Cased Pair Of 55-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By Peacock, London, Circa 1820
By Peacock, London, Circa 1820
With turn-off barrels each engraved with a broad band of foliage around the muzzle, signed rounded actions decorated with foliage and each signed beneath the rectangular pan over each side, engraved thumbpiece safety-catches also locking the steels, the latter each with blued spring with rollers, blued folding triggers, finely chequered figured rounded butts each with silver cap engraved with a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, and vacant silver escutcheons: in their contemporary lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask covered in black leather, the interior of the lid with Lang's trade label for circa 1827, the exterior with circular vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks
4 cm. barrels
4 cm. barrels
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Provenance
Sotheby & Co., London, Good Antique And Modern Firearms, Armour And Edged Weapons, 13 December 1971, lot 149
The maker is almost certainly William Peacock recorded at various West End addresses between 1819 and 1824. His trade label states 'from Mr. Joseph Manton'








