Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK LONG
HOLSTER PISTOLS BY WORNALL, CIRCA 1700
with two-stage swamped sighted barrels retaining traces of
engraving with over the breeches, signed rounded locks
engraved with scrolling tendrils with monsterhead
terminals and pairs of lines around the borders (worn),
figured walnut full stocks carved with raised mouldings
about the barrel tangs (the stocks replaced in the second
quarter of the 18th Century, one fore-end cracked the other
with minor repairs), full silver mounts comprising sideplates
pierced with scrolling foliage involving monsterhead
tendrils and a profile mask, trigger-guards engraved with a
perching bird on the bows and with slender foliate
terminals, spurred pommels engraved with monsterhead
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scrolls and fitted with finely chased grotesque mask caps,
escutcheons enclosed by a gaping grotesque and engraved
with the initials ‘GO’, a pair of baluster ramrod-pipes, and
one retaining its original steel-tipped wooden ramrod (the
other replaced)
52cm; 20I in
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Edward Wornall was a barrelsmith working in London circa
1690-1705. The silver mounts and the engraving on the
locks is similar to another pair of pistols by this maker
formerly in the Clay P. Bedford collection. The Bedford
pistols’ silver mounts are attributed to William Bull.
£4000-5000