Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2020 : Sale A0320 Lot 646
JAMES BARBAR A 15-BORE PERCUSSION SILVER-MOUNTED HOLSTER-PISTOL FOR RESTORATION, no visible serial number,

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JAMES BARBAR
A 15-BORE PERCUSSION SILVER-MOUNTED HOLSTER-PISTOL FOR RESTORATION, no visible serial number,
London hallmarks rubbed but almost certainly 1755 with later conversion to percussion by drum and nipple, with slightly swamped 9in. barrel (pitted), carved steeple and tear-drop rib at breech, iron top-tang, curved and radiused lock signed 'BARBAR' (faint, shallow pitted), slab-sided engraved hammer, walnut full-stock (cracked through at wrist and repaired, small losses), silver furniture including long-eared grotesque mask butt-cap, trigger-guard tang and bow, pierced floral ribbon sideplate, rococo escutcheon, oval take-down wedge escutcheons and ramrod pipes, missing end of ramrod, some furniture parts loose but present

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Estimate £1,000-1,200