Lot 319
A Rare Pair Of 20-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Pistols With Tutenag Barrels And Locks By D. Moore, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, Maker's Mark Of John King
24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,462.50 inc. premium
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By D. Moore, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, Maker's Mark Of John King
By D. Moore, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, Maker's Mark Of John King
With barrels each signed within an elongated loop along the breech flat, plain tangs with traces of engraved decoration, border engraved rounded locks (one cock, steels and steel-springs replaced) each signed within rocailles and foliage, and decorated with flower-heads on the rounded tail, engraved safety-catches, figured full stocks each with raised apron carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising border engraved shaped flat side-plates decorated with foliage, escutcheons engraved with owner's monogram, a shell above and a grotesque mask below, spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap within a border of strapwork, trigger-guards each with scallop shell finial and decorated with a flower-head on the border engraved bow, turned ramrod-pipes, and original horn-tipped ramrods each with iron worm, London proof marks and Moore's barrelsmith's mark (2)
20.9 cm. barrels
20.9 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Daniel 2 Moore was apprenticed to George Markby in 1746, and free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1756 of which he was elected Assistant in 1761. He died in 1802
