Queen Anne pistols a puzzle
Among my non-military British pistols are a curious pair of Queen Anne/Screw barrel/Turnoff pistols.I think they must be conversions from flint to percussion but as center hammer pistols they appear...
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Just an observation from someone who knows little about these, but it seems odd to me that if the case were original to the pistols that it would have been made so that the muzzles butted up against...
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Those proofs are Birmingham 18th Century. To me, these pistols are clearly converted but very well done, possibly by the great H W Mortimer. There was a Joseph Clarkson, Free of the Gunmakers Company...
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Thanks Bill,I am envious of your knowledge and your library !I presume the the Crown over P is an early Birmingham proof later changed to BP and then to be sold in London the Crown over V was...
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No, they are unofficial Proof and View marks that were widely accepted as were the private Tower Proofs and the Birmingham versions of the same. The Proof Laws were archaic and widely circumvented and...
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Thanks Bill I will add a "may have been converted by Mortimer and probably by George Clarkson.....1766"
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Vincent, I have seen that mask before somewhere. Is it hallmarked?...........Moses Brent?......not sure of the name. More a shot in the dark but I Think that was the name.
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