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Lot 593
A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY JOHN BUMFORD (2), LONDON
CIRCA 1765
Closed22 January 2009
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GBP 6,250
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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY JOHN BUMFORD (2), LONDON
CIRCA 1765
With cannon barrels, the breeches inscribed 'London' within engraved rococo frames, signed beneath the steel-springs and numbered 1 and 2 respectively, engraved breech tangs, border-engraved actions, figured walnut butts each carved with a trophy and shell in low relief about the tang, silver-mounts finely cast in low relief, comprising grotesque mask butt caps, pierced side-plates formed as elaborate trophies of arms, flowers and fruit, trophy-of-arms escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, and each fitted with iron sliding trigger-guard safety-catch, London proof marks, the iron and steel parts with light surface rust and light wear, the butts each cracked about the breech tangs
12½in (31.8cm)
The crest is that of Balfour, Bellett, Bellet, Billet, Billot, Church, Nelson, Nesbett, Nesbitt, Nisbet, O'Hickie and Tipping (2)
CIRCA 1765
With cannon barrels, the breeches inscribed 'London' within engraved rococo frames, signed beneath the steel-springs and numbered 1 and 2 respectively, engraved breech tangs, border-engraved actions, figured walnut butts each carved with a trophy and shell in low relief about the tang, silver-mounts finely cast in low relief, comprising grotesque mask butt caps, pierced side-plates formed as elaborate trophies of arms, flowers and fruit, trophy-of-arms escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, and each fitted with iron sliding trigger-guard safety-catch, London proof marks, the iron and steel parts with light surface rust and light wear, the butts each cracked about the breech tangs
12½in (31.8cm)
The crest is that of Balfour, Bellett, Bellet, Billet, Billot, Church, Nelson, Nesbett, Nesbitt, Nisbet, O'Hickie and Tipping (2)
A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY JOHN BUMFORD (2), LONDON
CIRCA 1765
With cannon barrels, the breeches inscribed 'London' within engraved rococo frames, signed beneath the steel-springs and numbered 1 and 2 respectively, engraved breech tangs, border-engraved actions, figured walnut butts each carved with a trophy and shell in low relief about the tang, silver-mounts finely cast in low relief, comprising grotesque mask butt caps, pierced side-plates formed as elaborate trophies of arms, flowers and fruit, trophy-of-arms escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, and each fitted with iron sliding trigger-guard safety-catch, London proof marks, the iron and steel parts with light surface rust and light wear, the butts each cracked about the breech tangs
12½in (31.8cm)
The crest is that of Balfour, Bellett, Bellet, Billet, Billot, Church, Nelson, Nesbett, Nesbitt, Nisbet, O'Hickie and Tipping (2)
CIRCA 1765
With cannon barrels, the breeches inscribed 'London' within engraved rococo frames, signed beneath the steel-springs and numbered 1 and 2 respectively, engraved breech tangs, border-engraved actions, figured walnut butts each carved with a trophy and shell in low relief about the tang, silver-mounts finely cast in low relief, comprising grotesque mask butt caps, pierced side-plates formed as elaborate trophies of arms, flowers and fruit, trophy-of-arms escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, and each fitted with iron sliding trigger-guard safety-catch, London proof marks, the iron and steel parts with light surface rust and light wear, the butts each cracked about the breech tangs
12½in (31.8cm)
The crest is that of Balfour, Bellett, Bellet, Billet, Billot, Church, Nelson, Nesbett, Nesbitt, Nisbet, O'Hickie and Tipping (2)
An Inventory of the Household Furniture now in Tissington Hall May of 30th 1775 - possibly in the Study - 'pair of Pistols'
Catalogue of Pictures and Curios at Tissington Hall, 1887, by Ida, daughter of Sir William FitzHerbert, 4th Bt., as 'a pair of single barrel flint & steel pistols with FitzHerbert crest, by Bumford of London' in 'a leather box containting firearms'
Catalogue of Pictures and Curios at Tissington Hall, 1887, by Ida, daughter of Sir William FitzHerbert, 4th Bt., as 'a pair of single barrel flint & steel pistols with FitzHerbert crest, by Bumford of London' in 'a leather box containting firearms'
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