Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY
JOSEPH GRIFFIN, LONDON, LONDON SILVER
HALLMARKS, MAKER’S MARK JA, CIRCA 1770
each with swamped barrel signed within a linear frame
over the breech, engraved barrel tang, signed rounded lock
engraved with border ornament, figured walnut full stocks
carved with shell ornament about the barrel tang (one foreend
replaced), swelling bulbous butts, silver mounts
comprising pierced strapwork side-plate involving flowers
and conventional foliage, butt-cap cast and chased with
grotesque masks, escutcheon en suite with the side-plate
and engraved with the owner’s crest, engraved moulded
ramrod-pipes, and steel trigger-guards engraved with
expanded flowers on the bows and with shell terminals
(later ramrods, restorations and repairs)
32.5cm; 12N in
(2)
£2500-3000
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