Product Details
A RARE 25-BORE PAKTONG-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY GRICE,
circa 1770, with paktong two-stage 8in. barrel of Spanish form slightly swamped at the muzzle, scroll engraving to the ends of each exposed top-flat, moulded band at intersection and signed 'LONDON', private proofs, borderline engraved iron top-tang, flat bevel-edged semi-stepped tail paktong lock with border and scroll engraving and signed 'GRICE' below the pan, blued iron cock, steel and frizzen-spring, walnut full-stock with swollen pommel, carved apron around the top-tang and raised tear-drops behind the lock and sideplate, all paktong furniture including grotesque mask butt-cap, trophy sideplate and moulded and engraved trigger guard bow, tang and finial, horn tipped ramrod
Provenance: This pistol is almost certainly the work of William Grice (1766-1790) who traded at 2 Whistler's Court, Cannon Street Birmingham and supplied a large number of guns marked 'London'
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Estimate £1,000-1,500