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A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock Brass-Mounted Coachman's PistolBy 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
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
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




