Pair of Unmarked Continental Brass Cannon Barrel Flintlock Muff Pistols
Sale 2030 - Arms, Armor and Militaria
Oct 23, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$1,000 -
$1,500
Lot Description
Pair of Unmarked Continental Brass Cannon Barrel Flintlock Muff Pistols
.45 caliber. 3.75" three stage octagon to round barrels with cannon muzzles. NSN. Brass barrels and furniture, steel locks, hardwood stocks. Single shot smoothbore muzzleloading flintlock pistols. Guns are unmarked. Convex locks remain in original flint, with rounded, fenced and bridled iron pans and rounded swan neck cocks. Frizzens with curled toes. Brass triggerguards with rudimentary urn finials and flat brass butt caps. The styling and shape of the grip with extended curve ending in a flat butt suggests French origin, likely first quarter of the 19th century.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Condition Report
Good. Bores moderately oxidized and showing some pitting on their breechfaces on the interior. Brass with an attractive mustard patina. Locks with a steel gray appearance, one mechanically functional and one not, having a broken sear arm that shows evidence of an old welded repair. Wood with moderate wear, some chipped wood loss around the lock mortises and one showing a crack at the forward lock screw. Otherwise wood with scattered bumps, dings and mars.
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