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Lot 46

A Rare 25-Bore Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Customs Pistol
By Barnett, Probably John Edward Or Thomas, Circa 1830

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

£400 - £500

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A Rare 25-Bore Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Customs Pistol
By Barnett, Probably John Edward Or Thomas, Circa 1830

With two-stage sighted barrel, octagonal breech engraved 'CUSTOMS' long the top flat, foliate engraved tang, russet border engraved flat bevelled lock signed in capitals, figured full stock (some old bruising, old split and minor damage at the muzzle) with rounded butt (patch of old staining), border engraved brass mounts comprising butt-cap and trigger-guard, the latter with pineapple finial and decorated with a flower-head on the border engraved bow, turned ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks
20.3 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Cf. another example by the same maker formerly in the John Wilmot Collection and sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 25 July 2007, lot 380

See Frederick Wilkinson, Those Entrusted With Arms..., 2002, p. 139

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