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BRAZIER, LONDON
A PAIR OF 18-BORE FLINTLOCK BRASS-BARRELLED LIVERY BELT PISTOLS, no visible serial numbers,
circa 1760, with round brass slightly swamped 7 1/2in. barrels, flat sighting planes at breeches engraved with a needle terminating in a teardrop and marked 'LONDON', private proofs, engraved iron top-tangs, border engraved slightly radiused locks signed 'BRAZIER' below the pans, swan-necked cocks with sliding safes behind, shallow pans with bridled frizzens, walnut full-stocks with brass furniture including long side-spurred bulbous butt-caps, brass rococo escutcheons engraved 'CHARRINGTON', iron side-mounted belt-hooks, one pistol repaired at wrist and lacking ramrod and frizzen spring
Provenance: A note found in the barrel of one pistol reads 'Horse pistols belonging to Nicholas Charrington of Bures Manor 1800'. The pistols have come by descent from the family
Many Braziers operated in London over the years, but these pistols are most likely the work of John, son of William, who after being apprenticed to his father operated from 1741-1769 in the Minories
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Estimate £1,000-1,500