A RARE FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY DAVID WYNN, LONDINI Circa 1725-28 With three-stage cannon barrel engraved with a band of foliage over the breech and signed below the steel-spring, engraved separate tang, border-engraved action (top jaw replaced), swelling figured walnut butt carved with a leaf moulding about the tang (small repair behind the action), silver mounts cast in low relief, comprising dragonesque side-plate, grotesque mask butt-cap and decorated escutcheon, with separate iron trigger-guard also forming the rear ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, London proof marks. 14 i n (35.6cm)
A RARE FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY DAVID WYNN, LONDINI Circa 1725-28 With three-stage cannon barrel engraved with a band of foliage over the breech and signed below the steel-spring, engraved separate tang, border-engraved action (top jaw replaced), swelling figured walnut butt carved with a leaf moulding about the tang (small repair behind the action), silver mounts cast in low relief, comprising dragonesque side-plate, grotesque mask butt-cap and decorated escutcheon, with separate iron trigger-guard also forming the rear ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, London proof marks. 14 i n (35.6cm)
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