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A 20-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistol
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A 20-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistol By P. Bond Of London, Early 19th Century With octagonal barrel with silver fore-sight and retaining faint traces of maker's details along the top flat, gold-lined touch-hole, tang engraved with foliage involving a Britannia shield and drum, flat bevelled lock signed in capitals, engraved with a starburst behind the pan and with foliage on the stepped tail, foliate engraved cock with safety-catch, roller, figured full stock (fore-end repaired on each side at the muzzle and in the ramrod-channel) with chequered rounded butt, the latter with border engraved steel cap, steel trigger-guard with large pineapple finial and decorated with a martial trophy on the border engraved bow, shield-shaped silver escutcheon engraved with owner's name 'Jonathan Scott' on the side-flat (repaired old split), silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and later horn-tipped ramrod (barrel and mounts with old pitting), Tower private proof marks and Bond's barrelsmith's mark 25.2 cm. barrel Footnotes: Philip John Joseph Bond was free of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1781. He is recorded as Gunmaker & Sword Cutler at 45 Cornhill, London between 1794 and the year of his death in 1816 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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A 20-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistol By P. Bond Of London, Early 19th Century With octagonal barrel with silver fore-sight and retaining faint traces of maker's details along the top flat, gold-lined touch-hole, tang engraved with foliage involving a Britannia shield and drum, flat bevelled lock signed in capitals, engraved with a starburst behind the pan and with foliage on the stepped tail, foliate engraved cock with safety-catch, roller, figured full stock (fore-end repaired on each side at the muzzle and in the ramrod-channel) with chequered rounded butt, the latter with border engraved steel cap, steel trigger-guard with large pineapple finial and decorated with a martial trophy on the border engraved bow, shield-shaped silver escutcheon engraved with owner's name 'Jonathan Scott' on the side-flat (repaired old split), silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and later horn-tipped ramrod (barrel and mounts with old pitting), Tower private proof marks and Bond's barrelsmith's mark 25.2 cm. barrel Footnotes: Philip John Joseph Bond was free of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1781. He is recorded as Gunmaker & Sword Cutler at 45 Cornhill, London between 1794 and the year of his death in 1816 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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