Main Sale - September 2012 : Sale A1066 Lot 456
CONSTANT, ROTTERDAM AN EARLY 20-BORE FLINTLOCK SINGLE-SHOT HORSE-PISTOL, no visible serial number,
Product Details
* CONSTANT, ROTTERDAM
AN EARLY 20-BORE FLINTLOCK SINGLE-SHOT HORSE-PISTOL, no visible serial number,
circa 1695, with round iron tapering 12in. barrel (some external pitting), unclear makers mark stamped at breech, banded breech-end, plain bevel-edged flat iron lockplate signed 'CONSTANT ROTTERDAM' (some mild pitting), unbridled frizzen, walnut full-stock carved around the solid top-tang (fore-end tip renewed), heavy brass butt-cap, plain brass trigger-guard and side-plate, brass ramrod thimble and probable original brass-tipped ramrod
Estimate £800-1,200