A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Pistols by Heylin.
A Fine Pair of Silver Mounted Pistols by Heylin. With three-stage turn-off cannon barrels, numbered ‘1’ and ‘2’ respectively and stamped below at the breeches with London proofs and Heylins own mark, border engraved box-lock actions profusely decorated with stands of arms and sprays of foliage, signed on foliate scrolls to the right, ‘HEYLIN CORNHILL’ and ‘LONDON’ to the left, tangs engraved with scrolling foliage, sliding trigger guard safety catch, border engraved cocks (one cock appears to have an old contemporary repair) swelling walnut butts with cast and chased silver mounts comprising signed escutcheons, engraved with a crown and ‘P Cp C’ and butt masks with a Rampant lion on a fortress.
Heylin
Joseph – Gunmaker, ‘at the Cross Guns’, Cornhill, 1757. Made free of Gunmakers Co., by redemption, proof piece and marks, 1757. Elected Assistant, 1773; Master 1777. Gunmaker & stone crossbow maker, 48 Cornhill, 1757-79; 100 Bishopsgate Within, 1780-1; Aldergate St., 1796. Contractor to East India Co. 1773-7; Hudson Bay Co., 1775-7; African Merchants Co., 1760. Died 1801.
Dimensions:
Bore: 50 Bore
Barrel Length: 3.5 Inches (9 cm)
Overall Length: 9.5 Inches (24 cm)
£2,950.00
1 in stock
