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Lot 156

A 16-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol
By W. Turvey, London, Circa 1730

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

Sold for £384 inc. premium

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A 16-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistol
By W. Turvey, London, Circa 1730

With three stage russet barrel turned at the breech, foliate engraved tang, signed rounded lock (top jaw and screw replaced), figured full stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, brass mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plate, vacant escutcheon, spurred pommel with grotesque-mask cap, trigger-guard with foliate finial, turned ramrod-pipes, and later ramrod, London proof marks and Turvey's barrelsmith's mark
18.9 cm. barrel

Footnotes

William 1 Turvey was apprenticed to Edward 1 Turvey in 1703. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1733 and died by 1744. Following his death the business was carried on by his widow Sara

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