Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 23 Sep 2020

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A near pair of 18th Century English flintlock pistols

£1,000 - £1,500 £1,600

A near pair of 18th Century English flintlock pistols, by Griffin of Bond Street, numbered 1 and 3 to cartouches on the wrists, swamped barrels (number 1 being 20 bore, 8 in.; number 3 being 22 bore, 20.25 in.) each engraved 'BOND STREET LONDON' at the breech, London company proof marks; border engraved locks signed 'GRIFFIN', swan-neck cocks; full stocks with brass furniture including pommels with long spurs, later ram rods; the number 1 pistol with a eagle's head crest to the cartouche. [2]

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