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A Pair Of 35-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Turn-Off PistolsBy Stanton, London, Mid-18th Century
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £704 inc. premium
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A Pair Of 35-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Turn-Off Pistols
By Stanton, London, Mid-18th Century
By Stanton, London, Mid-18th Century
With cannon barrels each engraved with a band of foliage at the breech, border engraved actions each signed on a foliate scroll on both sides, foliate engraved tang, trigger guards each decorated with a flower-head on the bow, figured swelling butts each inlaid with silver wire scrollwork, silver grotesque-mask butt caps, London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark in the shape of a flower-head (2)
9.8 cm. barrels
9.8 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Johnathan Stanton was apprenticed to William Turvey in 1739. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1765 and died in 1766




