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534<br />
A FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOL BY HAY, GREENWICH,<br />
TOWER PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1790<br />
with signed two-stage barrel fitted with silver ‘spider’ foresight<br />
and spring bayonet on the right, engraved with a band of<br />
beadwork at the breech, engraved tang, signed lock with<br />
engraved border (cock replaced), fitted with a sliding catch<br />
beneath the pan for the bayonet, figured walnut full stock, flatsided<br />
butt cut with chequering, and engraved steel mounts<br />
including trigger-guard with acorn finial, and oval escutcheon<br />
with the owner’s initials (the steel parts pitted, later ramrod)<br />
32cm; 12I in<br />
This maker appears to be unrecorded.<br />
£500-600<br />
535<br />
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY<br />
A SILVER MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY EDWARD (1)<br />
NORTH, LONDON, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR<br />
1743<br />
with swamped two-stage barrel signed on a raised<br />
moulding terminating in a scallop over the breech and<br />
stamped with the maker’s mark, gold vent, engraved barrel<br />
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535<br />
tang fitted with pronounced back-sight, rounded lock signed<br />
on a scroll and fitted with sliding safety-catch (incomplete),<br />
figured walnut full stock carved with a scallop shell about<br />
the barrel tang (fore-end cracked), full silver mounts cast<br />
and chased in low relief, comprising side-plate pierced with<br />
elaborate trophies-of-war, spurred pommel decorated with<br />
further trophies and fitted with grotesque mask cap, triggerguard<br />
chased with a flower on the bow, a pair of moulded<br />
ramrod-pipes, vacant trophy-of-arms escutcheon, and<br />
original silver-tipped ebony ramrod (the silver parts rubbed,<br />
one barrel bolt missing, ramrod incomplete)<br />
36cm; 14B in<br />
Edward (1) North was made free of the Gunmaker’s<br />
Company in 1729, registered his mark in 1733 and became<br />
Master in 1753. It is likely that the vent was lined in gold and<br />
the back-sight added in the very early part of the pistol’s<br />
working life.<br />
£1000-1400<br />
VARIOUS OWNERS<br />
536<br />
A FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL BY HENRY HADLEY,<br />
LONDON, TOWER PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1760<br />
with turn-off barrel (now reversed and fixed at the breech),<br />
signed box-lock action, sliding thumb-piece safety-catch,<br />
flat-sided walnut butt fitted with silver escutcheon engraved<br />
with the owner’s initials (worn throughout)<br />
20.5cm; 8in<br />
£150-200<br />
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