Lot 314
PAIR OF SILVER MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS, BY DANIEL MOORE, LONDON
HALLMARKED LONDON 1774
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 5 July 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
each with brass locks and barrels signed MOORE, LONDON, struck with London gunmaker's view and proof marks, and with DM makers mark at breech, with silver furniture in the rococo style and shell-form trigger guard finials, hallmarked London, 1774 with marks for John King, with polished walnut full stocks with spurred silver butt caps and grotesque mask finials, the silver ramrod pipes and side plates holding horn tipped ramrods, in a later fitted brass bound mahogany case, with a black leather powder flask stamped with initials on the brass mount, and further accessories (2)
Dimensions
18ins overall
Footnote
Note: Daniel Moore of 24 Fenchurch St, London was a supplier of firearms to the East India Company and later to the Board of Ordnance in 1780. In 1778 he offered to supply 400 muskets a month at £1-7s-6d.
Literature:
Bailey, De Witt, British Board of Ordnance Small Arms Contractors, 1689-1840 (W. S. Curtis, 1999)