An Unusual Pair of Rifled Flintlock Pistols
A Pair of Rifled Flintlock Pistols, circa 1750, with round slightly swamped 11in. barrels of probable Italian manufacture, blind moulded and carved sighting ribs signed ‘TWIGG’ (probably spurious), small boat-shaped fore-sights, the breech of barrels engraved with foliage and relief carved with the mask of a horned man, engraved and moulded solid top-tangs with shallow rear-sights, yellow metal lined touch-holes, flat lockplates with carved bevel edges, engraved offset stepped and pointed tails, lozenge-shaped semi rainproof pans, carved moulded and engraved swan-necked cocks, carved frizzen springs, later Twigg signature below the pans, walnut half-stocks in the English style with curved chequered bag-shaped grips (fractured and repaired), originally fitted with sockets for a shoulder-stock, now filled with wood, spurred English style trigger guards and horn-tipped mahogany ramrods
£2,500.00
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