A Pair Of 20-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols By S. Blanckle...
A Pair Of 20-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By S. Blanckle (Sic), Circa 1705
With slightly shortened two-stage barrels, plain tangs, signed border engraved rounded locks each engraved with characteristic strawberry foliage with monster-head terminals, cocks en suite, moulded highly figured rootwood full stocks (one fore-end partly replaced at the muzzle, small chip beneath the tail of one lock, back of one butt with minor old worm holes), iron mounts comprising side-plates each pierced and chiselled as a scrolling foliate monster, vacant escutcheons, spurred pommels engraved en suite with the locks, and trigger-guards each with foliate finial, turned baluster ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrods, one with iron cap and worm (some wear and light pitting), indistinct London proof marks (2)
29.7 cm. and 30 cm. barrels
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington, The J.C.L. Knapton Collection of Antique Firearms, 28 February 1990, lot 98
The Richard Garrett Collection sold in these Rooms, 28 November 2018, lot 295
The Penrose Collection
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, 1984, pp. 330-332, pl. 136 (one pistol only)
Samuel Blanckley, son of John, was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1705. He was Gunmaker to Ordnance between 1704 and 1708, and was Beadle of the Gunmaker's Company between 1734 and 1750, the year of his death
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A Pair Of 20-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
By S. Blanckle (Sic), Circa 1705
With slightly shortened two-stage barrels, plain tangs, signed border engraved rounded locks each engraved with characteristic strawberry foliage with monster-head terminals, cocks en suite, moulded highly figured rootwood full stocks (one fore-end partly replaced at the muzzle, small chip beneath the tail of one lock, back of one butt with minor old worm holes), iron mounts comprising side-plates each pierced and chiselled as a scrolling foliate monster, vacant escutcheons, spurred pommels engraved en suite with the locks, and trigger-guards each with foliate finial, turned baluster ramrod-pipes, and later horn-tipped ramrods, one with iron cap and worm (some wear and light pitting), indistinct London proof marks (2)
29.7 cm. and 30 cm. barrels
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington, The J.C.L. Knapton Collection of Antique Firearms, 28 February 1990, lot 98
The Richard Garrett Collection sold in these Rooms, 28 November 2018, lot 295
The Penrose Collection
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, 1984, pp. 330-332, pl. 136 (one pistol only)
Samuel Blanckley, son of John, was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1705. He was Gunmaker to Ordnance between 1704 and 1708, and was Beadle of the Gunmaker's Company between 1734 and 1750, the year of his death
