AN UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOL with two-stage cannon barrel in one with the action, the former fitted with spring bayonet beneath, the latter engraved with rococo ornament and signed on the left side (top-jaw and screw replaced), engraved thumbpiece safety-catch, figured walnut butt (minor repair), engraved iron trigger-guard and spurred pommel, vacant silver escutcheon, and original horn-tipped whalebone ramrod (the iron parts rubbed and lightly pitted overall), by John Waters of Birmingham, private Birmingham proof marks, late 18th Century 13¼in. | Christie's

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AN UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOL with two-stage cannon barrel in one with the action, the former fitted with spring bayonet beneath, the latter engraved with rococo ornament and signed on the left side (top-jaw and screw replaced), engraved thumbpiece safety-catch, figured walnut butt (minor repair), engraved iron trigger-guard and spurred pommel, vacant silver escutcheon, and original horn-tipped whalebone ramrod (the iron parts rubbed and lightly pitted overall), by John Waters of Birmingham, private Birmingham proof marks, late 18th Century 13¼in.

细节

AN UNUSUAL FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK PISTOL with two-stage cannon barrel in one with the action, the former fitted with spring bayonet beneath, the latter engraved with rococo ornament and signed on the left side (top-jaw and screw replaced), engraved thumbpiece safety-catch, figured walnut butt (minor repair), engraved iron trigger-guard and spurred pommel, vacant silver escutcheon, and original horn-tipped whalebone ramrod (the iron parts rubbed and lightly pitted overall), by John Waters of Birmingham, private Birmingham proof marks, late 18th Century 13¼in.

拍品专文

This is an unusual variant of the more commonly found Waters patent blunderbuss-pistol and presumably predates his patent of 1781