Lot 233
FOUR FLINTLOCK AND PERCUSSION ENGLISH PISTOLS
18TH / 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day One | Wednesday 18 Feb at 10am | Lots 1 to 352
Description
including a flintlock pistol signed ‘Innes, Edinburgh’; a percussion pistol by William Bond, London, the action signed ‘W. Bond’, the barrel top flat signed ‘Lombard St. London’, with dolphin hammer and engraved action with safety catch, chequered butt with silver octagonal escutcheon engraved with initials ‘JR’; a flintlock pocket pistol by Henry Nock, London, with screw/turnoff barrel and boxlock, the action signed 'Nock, London'; and a Victorian percussion pepperbox pistol, with fluted barrels, Birmingham proof marks, border and foliate scroll engraved steel rounded action and frame, chequered butt plates (4)
Dimensions
the largest 37cm long
Footnote
William Thomas Bond, who was appointed Gunmaker to the Grocers Company in 1803. He was at 59 Lombard Street between 1803-36. William was the son of Edward Bond, who was granted Freedom of Gunmakers Company 1754 and became Master of Gunmakers Company 1780. The Bond Family were esteemed gunmakers of London.
Henry Nock (1741 - 1804) took livery in London in 1795, was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1802 and was appointed Gunsmith-in-Ordinary to George III in 1789.
All sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament