A Silver Mounted Flintlock Cannon Barrel Pistol by Bunney, London. With three-stage turn-off cannon barrel, border engraved action, signed on a scroll decorated with foliage ‘BUNNEY’ to the left and ‘LONDON’ to the right, sliding trigger safety, steel cock and frizen, decorated with dog-tooth design (top-jaw an old replacement) silver inlaid globulous butt (90% of silver wire remains) with silver foliate butt-mask, struck with silver hall-marks. Tower of London proofs. In lovely untouched condition. 

BUNNEY 

Joseph Gun & Pistol Maker, Birmingham, 1765-1814. Registered silver mark at Birmingham Assay Office, 1773. Marked guns ‘London’

Samuel Gunsmith, Birmingham 1768, at the corner of the Hole in the Wall, Little Russell St., Bloomsbury, 1777. 

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

Bunney, Joseph (3 generations: father, son, grandson) [1730-1815]

Made brass cannon barrel boxlock flintlock pocket and coach pistols, and flintlock holster pistols with Royal Cypher; also cased flintlock duelling pistols with all accessories. Shops in London and Birmingham.

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

Dimensions:

Bore: 22 Bore

Barrel Length: 6 Inches (15.24 cm)

Overall Length: 12.5 Inches (31.75 cm)