A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OVER PISTOLS SIGNED BOURNE AND HAWKINS

A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OVER PISTOLS SIGNED BOURNE AND HAWKINS, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, BIRMINGHAM SILVER MARKS 1783, MAKERS MARK WS with reblued turn-off barrels, released by a sliding bolt on the front of the trigger-guards, box-lock actions, finely engraved with a bird perched on a rococo urn carried by a delicate bouquet of flowers on the right, signed on rococo scrolls on a shell on the left, fitted with pierced cocks and sliding thumb-piece safety-catches also locking the steels, swelling walnut butts profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls enriched with pellets, pear-shaped silver butt-caps, border-engraved vacant silver escutcheons, and iron trigger-guards decorated with a flower within a diamond-shaped frame on the bows 6.0 cm; 2 3/8 in barrels (2)