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Lot 147

A Pair Of 35-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Turn-Off Pistols
By Stanton, London, Mid-18th Century

24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of 35-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Turn-Off Pistols
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

Footnotes

Johnathan Stanton was apprenticed to William Turvey in 1739. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1765 and died in 1766

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