Product Details
A SCARCE PAIR OF SIDE-COCKING BOXLOCK 40-BORE FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOLS BY E. BAKER, LONDON, CIRCA 1800, FOR RENOVATION,
2 3/4in. round turn-off barrels with folding assistance handles beneath, bead fore-sights, engraved bands at joins, rounded breeches with 'LONDON' in script to the tops, London proofs, side-mounted rainproof pans with recumbent springs, rollers and engraved bridles, engraved and pierced cocks with sliding safes behind, engraved squared boxlock actions signed in clip-corner panels on the left side 'E. BAKER, GUNMAKER ****** PICCADILLY(?)' (remainder obscured), automatic flush-folding triggers, the top-straps engraved with martial trophies, finely chequered semi slab-sided walnut bag-shaped butts originally with white metal oval escutcheons to the wrists (one absent) and cast and chisel engraved lion mask pommel caps, both pistols complete but with areas of substantial pitting, top of one frizzen chipped
Provenance: These pistols are assumed to be the product of Ezekiel Baker
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Estimate £300-500