A 54-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol Signed Archer, London, Late...
A 54-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol
Signed Archer, London, Late 18th Century
With turn-off barrel, border engraved action signed in capitals over each side, trigger-guard, and figured flat-sided butt, private Birmingham proof marks; together with a percussion six-shot pepperbox revolver of small bore (old pitting overall, action defective, one barrel burst at the breech, grips missing), and sparsely engraved with foliate scrollwork, mid-19th century, Birmingham proof marks (2)
6.2 cm. barrel and 8 cm. barrels
The maker is almost certainly Thomas Archer recorded in Birmingham between 1776 and 1857. He is known to have marked his firearms 'London'
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A 54-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol
Signed Archer, London, Late 18th Century
With turn-off barrel, border engraved action signed in capitals over each side, trigger-guard, and figured flat-sided butt, private Birmingham proof marks; together with a percussion six-shot pepperbox revolver of small bore (old pitting overall, action defective, one barrel burst at the breech, grips missing), and sparsely engraved with foliate scrollwork, mid-19th century, Birmingham proof marks (2)
6.2 cm. barrel and 8 cm. barrels
The maker is almost certainly Thomas Archer recorded in Birmingham between 1776 and 1857. He is known to have marked his firearms 'London'
