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Lot 160

A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock Brass-Mounted Coachman's Pistol
By John Twigg, London, Circa 1760

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

£1,000 - £1,500

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A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock Brass-Mounted Coachman's Pistol
By John Twigg, London, Circa 1760

With slightly swamped barrel and tang, rounded lock with first form of signature, figured full stock, mounts comprising scroll side-plate, spurred pommel, trigger-guard, turned ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod (barrel and lock refaced), London proof marks
20.4 cm. barrel

Footnotes

This is one of Twigg's earliest firearms. For a similar pair sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour, 30 April 2014, lot 438; and for another example see Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 9 November 2000, lot 216

For more information see W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 47, 159-60, plate 100

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