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A Very Unusual Pair Of 20 Bore Flintlock Pistols
A Very Unusual Pair Of 20 Bore Flintlock Pistols
£4,150.00
Product Code
FP763
In stock
A very unusual and scarce pair of 20 bore flintlock turn-off pistols with folding bayonets by Halfhide, London, circa 1730, each with two-stage cannon barrel, engraved with a band of foliage around the breech, and fitted with a sprung blade folding into a mount beneath the barrel, London proof marks, border engraved breeches, each engraved with a band of foliage at the rear and signed beneath the chiselled steel-spring.
Border engraved actions, trigger-guards each with trefoil-shaped finial, swelling figured rounded butts, each with lightly carved apron around the tang, side-plates pieced and engraved as a monster with pierced foliate tail, and border engraved butt caps each with engraved foliate tang up the back of the butt and engraved with beadwork centred on the retaining screw, Halfhides barrelsmiths mark. In good working order.
Barrel Length - 13cm. Overall length - 30cm. Blade Length - 11.5cm.
A very unusual and scarce pair of 20 bore flintlock turn-off pistols with folding bayonets by Halfhide, London, circa 1730, each with two-stage cannon barrel, engraved with a band of foliage around the breech, and fitted with a sprung blade folding into a mount beneath the barrel, London proof marks, border engraved breeches, each engraved with a band of foliage at the rear and signed beneath the chiselled steel-spring.
Border engraved actions, trigger-guards each with trefoil-shaped finial, swelling figured rounded butts, each with lightly carved apron around the tang, side-plates pieced and engraved as a monster with pierced foliate tail, and border engraved butt caps each with engraved foliate tang up the back of the butt and engraved with beadwork centred on the retaining screw, Halfhides barrelsmiths mark. In good working order.
Barrel Length - 13cm. Overall length - 30cm. Blade Length - 11.5cm.
George Halfhide was apprenticed to John Sibley in 1709. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers Company in 1736, and was Proofmaster between 1738 and 1748, the year of his death.
| Weight (kg) | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Mechanism | Flintlock |
| License Type | No Licence Required |
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