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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED 22-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS SIGNED GRIFFIN, LONDON, no visible serial numbers, circa 1760 with later modifications, slightly swamped blued 7in. iron barrels (shortened), the tops engraved with a needle and teardrop terminal, the needles signed 'GRIFFIN, LONDON', makers stamp for Joseph Griffin, ball engraved band at breech and solid engraved top-tangs, borderline engraved radiused locks with pointed tails, one lock signed 'TRULOCK' in script below the pan, the other unsigned and a possible working replacement, walnut full-stocks carved with teardrops and aprons, London hallmarked sterling silver grotesque butt-caps bearing makers mark 'I.K.' (date letters absent), silver complex sideplates, the escutcheons at wrists engraved with a crown over a portcullis and marked 'No.1', iron trigger-guard bows and later captive iron ramrods.

wolferton-norfolk, United Kingdom