Product Details
AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY 28-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL SIGNED G. TAYLOR, no visible serial number,
circa 1710, with octagonal to sixteen-sided to stepped two-stage round iron 11 1/2in. barrel (possibly slightly shortened), moulded girdles to the round sections, the top-flat at breech signed 'G. TAYLOR FECIT' with borderline engraving to the flats and a scrolled flourish to the breech-end, London proofs and 'G.T.' makers mark together with a deeply struck heart-shaped armourer's stamp, plain top-tang (repaired), borderline and florally engraved curved and radiused lock signed 'TAYLOR' (pan replaced), fruitwood full-stock (fore-end renewed, repaired age cracks) with brass furniture including bulbous butt-cap with long side-ears, guarded trigger, turned ramrod thimbles and replacement ramrod
Provenance: This pistol is almost certainly the work of George Taylor (2), who was apprenticed to Godfrey Tailor in 1687, became free of the Company of Gunmakers in 1694, and became a gunmaker to Ordnance between 1698 until his death in 1711. He traded from the Minories, London
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Estimate £400-600