A Good Pair of Brass Barrelled Holster Pistols by Brander of London. With three-staged octagonal to round barrels swelling towards the muzzles, engraved LONDON towards the breeches and stamped with London proofs and Branders barrel smith mark ‘WB’, steel tangs cut with sighting grooves, border engraved and decorated with foliage, signed border engraved locks and cocks, full-stocked in walnut with raised foliate mouldings around the tangs, complete with brass mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plates, vacant floral escutcheons, long eared butt caps with grotesque masks, engraved trigger guards decorated with flower heads on the bows and acorn finials, turned ramrod pipes and with horn tipped ramrods. 

Brander, W. (3 generations) [1690-1750]

Shop located in the Minories, London. Made brass barrel flintlock carbine for the East India Company and flintlock coach pistols. For the next two generations known as W. B. Brander in the Minories from 1750 to 1825 and they had extensive Royal Government contracts for flintlock holster pistols and flintlock muskets. The name changed to Brander & Potts at 70 Minories with another shop at Winchelsea, from 1825 to 1832. 

A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York. 

BRANDER & POTTS

Martin Brander & Thomas Potts,

Gunmakers, 70 Minories and Goodman's Yard., 1802-27. Succeeded by Thomas Potts. Contractors to Ordnance, 1815-1820. 

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. 

Dimensions:

Bore: 18 Bore

Barrel Length: 8 Inches (20.32 cm)

Overall Length: 13.25 Inches (33.65 cm)