A 14 Bore Brass Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistol by Heylin of London, Circa 1760. With round three stage sighted barrel engraved with scrolling foliage stamped with London proofs and barrel smiths mark, border engraved tang cut with a sighting groove, signed border engraved lock, full stocked in walnut with a raised carved apron around the tang, completed with brass furniture comprising side-plate, long eared butt cap with grotesque mask, escutcheon at wrist, trigger guard with stylised acanthus leaf finial and turned ramrod pipes with horn-tipped ramrod.

Heylin, Joseph [1750-1800]

Made brass, cannon barrel, flintlock coaching pistols and brass barrel flintlock blunderbusses. Shop in Cornhill, London. 

A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York. 

HEYLIN

Joseph, Gunmaker, ‘at the Cross Guns’, Cornhill, 1757 .Made free of Gunmakers Co., by redemption, proof piece & mark, 1757. Elected Assistant, 1773; Master in 1777. Gunmaker and stone crossbow maker, 48 Cornhill, 1757-79; 100 Bishopsgate Within, 1780-1; Aldersgate Street 1796. Contractor to East India Co., 1773-7; Hudson Bay Co., 1775-7; African Merchants Co., 1760. Died 1801. 

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. 

Dimensions:

Bore: 20 Bore

Barrel Length: 8.5 Inches (21.59 cm)

Overall Length: 14 Inches (35.56 cm)