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A 28-Bore Percussion Officer's Pistol By Beckwith, London, Circa 1840
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge£250 - £350
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A 28-Bore Percussion Officer's Pistol
By Beckwith, London, Circa 1840
By Beckwith, London, Circa 1840
With octagonal sighted barrel engraved 'London' along the top flat, foliate scroll engraved breech and tang, the latter incorporating the back-sight, border engraved signed flat lock decorated with foliate scrollwork, reblued dolphin hammer decorated en suite, figured full stock with chequered rounded butt, trigger-guard with pineapple finial and decorated en suite with the lock on the bow, vacant white-metal escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and stirrup ramrod, London proof marks
8.9 cm. barrel
8.9 cm. barrel
Footnotes
William Andrew Beckwith was apprenticed to Wattell Clark in 1785. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1808, 1814, 1825 and again in 1840, the year before his death. He was Contractor to Ordnance in 1838 and to the East India Company between 1823 and 1841. He is recorded at 51 Skinner Street, Snow Hill, London between 1802 and 1841. The business was carried on by his widow Elizabeth until 1868 being in partnership with their son as Elizabeth Beckwith & Son between 1842 and 1853




