antique arms, armour & militaria - Thomas Del Mar Ltd

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A PAIR OF 80 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS WITH
TUTENAG BARRELS AND ACTIONS BY KING, LONDON,
CIRCA 1780
with turn-off cannon barrels, box-lock actions signed on
scrolls on the left and inscribed London on a further scroll
on the right, each surrounded by rococo scrolls and
flowers, engraved tangs, highly figured swelling walnut
butts profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls (one butt
with a very small chip), fitted with silver grotesque mask
caps, and sliding tutenag trigger-guard safety-catches
engraved with expanded flowerheads
15.2cm; 6in
(2)
£1500-2000
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A PAIR OF 120 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS BY
JOYNER, LONDON, TOWER PRIVATE PROOF MARKS,
CIRCA 1770
each with brass turn-off cannon barrel moulded at the
muzzle, engraved brass box-lock action signed on an
elaborate scroll surrounded by rococo flowers on the left,
and inscribed ‘London’ on a further scroll on the right
(one top-jaw replaced), figured walnut flat-sided butt
finely inlaid with silver-wire rococo scrollwork enriched
with pellets and flowers over the spine and on each side,
and sliding trigger-guard safety-catch engraved with a
diamond filled with a rococo flower
15.2cm; 6in
(2)
John 2 Joyner apprenticed to Charles Pickfatt in 1747,
was made Free of the Gunmaker’s Company in 1758,
became Master in 1773 and died the following year.
£1400-1800