A Highly Unusual 25-Bore Flintlock Pistol, Circa 1820. With blued sighted barrel turned russet along the top and decorated with etched and gilt scrolling foliage over its entire length centred on a martial trophy, blued octagonal breech brightly etched with a rose and foliage, recessed on one side and with a platinum-lined touch-hole, blued tang with sighting groove and decorated en suite with the barrel, rounded lock also en suite with brightly etched border of running foliage, pierced cock, gilt-lined rainproof pan and large roller, and original blued finish on the internal working parts, figured full-stock (fore-end with minor bruising) with chequered butt and swelling pommel, parcel-gilt steel mounts chiselled in high relief with Classical trophies of arms against a punched ground and comprising shaped side-plate and pommel cap, trigger guard with trophy of arms finial, the bow en suite, turned ramrod pipes, vacant foliate silver escutcheon with a Classical trophy above, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original brass-mounted ramrod, and much of its original finish, Birmingham Proof marks. 

Dimensions:

Bore: 25 Bore

Barrel Length: 10.5 Inches (26.67 cm)

Overall Length: 16.5 Inches (41.91 cm)