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Lot 322

A Very Rare 28-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pistol With Gold-Inlaid Decoration
By S. Brunn, 55 Charing Cross, London, Circa 1800

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare 28-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pistol With Gold-Inlaid Decoration
By S. Brunn, 55 Charing Cross, London, Circa 1800

With long turn-off barrel finely inlaid with engraved gold swags and martial trophies, the latter suspended from four ribbons, the muzzle and breech each encircled by a band of engraved gold triangles, the breech, action, ring-neck cock and steel all decorated en suite, the action signed on a gold oval over each side, gold-lined pan, gold-inlaid thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel, later rounded ebony butt (gold-inlaid tangs replaced) with cast silver grotesque mask cap, and retaining traces of original blueing (some scattered pitting), gold-lined London proof marks
17.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Samuel Brunn took over John Knubley's business at 7 Charing Cross on his death in 1795 and continued the business in his name until 1797. He is recorded under his own name as Sword Cutler & Gunmaker at 55 Charing Cross between 1798 and 1804 and was at 56 Charing Cross between 1805 and 1820. He was appointed Sword Cutler and Gunmaker to the Prince of Wales, 1800-11; the Prince Regent, 1812-1820; and Contractor to Ordnance, 1797-1809. For more details see Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords..., 2001, pp. 58-59

Samuel Brunn is the maker of the pair of elaborate silver-mounted neoclassical pistols of 1800, probably made for the Prince Regent, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of art, New York (inv. nos. 1992.330.1,2)

Cf. a pair of flintlock pocket pistols by the same maker and with related gold-inlaid decoration, formerly in the A.R. Dufty Collection and sold Christie's London, Fine Antique Arms and Armour, 26 October 1994, lot 236

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