Product Details
GILES MASSIN, LIEGE
A 22-BORE FLINTLOCK SASH-PISTOL, no visible serial number,
circa 1730, with slightly swamped 8 5/8in. barrel, cannon muzzle, moulded band at breech with foliate engraving extending forwards, further foliate engraving around the applied brass fore-sight, border engraved top-tang, border engraved flat bevel-edged lockplate with foliate engraved stepped tail, signed forwards of the hammer ''G. MASSIN', border engraved hammer, walnut full-stock with artificial figuring (some cracks and repairs to fore-end), brass furniture including bulbous long-eared butt-cap with central grotesque mask and relief carved foliage, irregular shaped vacant escutcheon surmounted with a coronet to the wrist, pierced sideplate of floral scrolls surrounding a grotesque mask, the trigger guard bow engraved with a winged mask and shells, octagonal ramrod pipes and later brass tipped ramrod
Provenance: Ex Lot 330 Bonhams Fine Antique Arms and Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, Wednesday 28th November 2007
Literature: G. de Vries and B.J. Martens The Visser Collection vol. 1, part 4, cat. no. 885 pp.466-467,
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Estimate £1,080-1,280