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‡ A PAIR OF 20 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY GRIFFIN, LONDON, LONDON VIEW AND
‡ A PAIR OF 20 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY GRIFFIN, LONDON, LONDON VIEW AND PROOF MARKS, FOREIGNERS MARK, CIRCA 1760, MAKER'S MARK JA PROBABLY FOR JERMIAH ASHLEY each with cannon barrel, rounded breech struck with foreigner's mark and proof marks beneath, box-lock action engraved with border ornament and signed on a rococo scroll on the left, engraved tang, thumb-piece safety-catch, scroll-engraved tang, swelling figured walnut butt inlaid with silver wire scrolls, silver grotesque mask butt-cap cast and chased in low relief, escutcheon with the owner's crest, and iron trigger-guard engraved with a rococo flower, 31.5 cm overall (2) The crest is recorded as that of eighteen families including Griffin.
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‡ A PAIR OF 20 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY GRIFFIN, LONDON, LONDON VIEW AND
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