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Lot 349*
A Pair Of 20-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols By Ketland & Co., Circa 1785
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,167.50 inc. premium
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A Pair Of 20-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By Ketland & Co., Circa 1785
By Ketland & Co., Circa 1785
With slightly swamped octagonal barrels each with silver spider fore-sight and an engraved band of beadwork at the rear of the breech, border engraved tangs decorated with foliated rocailles, signed flat bevelled locks each with large roller, figured full stocks (fore-ends repaired) each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, iron mounts comprising engraved pierced ribbon side-plates, vacant oval escutcheons each chiselled with a flower-head above and a pedestal below, border engraved spurred pommels each with stepped cap and decorated with flower-heads, trigger-guards each with acorn finial and engraved with a flower-head within a rectangular panel on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrods (some old pitting), Birmingham proof marks (2)
20.2 cm. barrels
20.2 cm. barrels
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Provenance
W. Keith Neal Collection, P19 and P20
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 8 November 1995, lot 277








