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Lot 146
A 25-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Turn-Off PistolBy Pickfatt, Probably Charles, London, Circa 1740
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge£500 - £700
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A 25-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Turn-Off Pistol
By Pickfatt, Probably Charles, London, Circa 1740
By Pickfatt, Probably Charles, London, Circa 1740
With two-stage cannon barrel engraved 'London' along the top flat and decorated with foliage at the breech, border engraved tang, border engraved action signed in capitals beneath the steel-spring, swelling butt carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plate, vacant escutcheon, and trophy of arms butt-cap, London proof marks and indistinct maker's mark
13.4 cm. barrel
13.4 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Charles Pickfatt was made free of the London Gunmakers' Company by patrimony in 1719. He was Contractor to Ordnance between 1727 and 1756 and retired in 1757




