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A Pair Of 18-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Holster PistolsBy Griffin & Tow, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, Maker's Mark Of Joseph Keays
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge£3,600 - £4,500
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A Pair Of 18-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Holster Pistols
By Griffin & Tow, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, Maker's Mark Of Joseph Keays
By Griffin & Tow, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, Maker's Mark Of Joseph Keays
With rebrowned barrels each engraved with a line of beadwork at the breech and with an elongated loop along the top, foliate engraved tangs, signed flat border engraved locks (old rust patination) each decorated with foliage at the stepped tail, engraved cocks (one cock and both retaining screws replaced), figured full stocks each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising side-plates pierced with foliage and involving a falchion and a plumed helmet, vacant martial escutcheons, engraved spurred pommels each with grotesque mask butt-cap within a border of linked scallop shells, trigger-guards each with foliate finial and engraved with a flower-head on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, and silver-tipped ramrods each with steel worm, London proof marks and Joseph Griffin's barrelsmith's mark (2)
22.6 cm. barrels
22.6 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Joseph Griffin & John Tow are recorded at 10 New Bond Street, London between 1772 and 1782




