A 50-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol by Griffin, Bond Street, London, Circa 1760

With turn-off cannon barrel numbered '2' at the breech, breech numbered to correspond and engraved with foliage in front of the action on both sides, border engraved action signed on a foliate scroll on one side and with the address on a foliate scroll on the other, bright border engraved cock and steel, sliding trigger-guard safety-catch engraved with a flower-head on the bow, figured flat-sided butt, and in good condition, London proof marks 

FOOTNOTES

Benjamin Griffin, father of Joseph, was apprenticed to Samuel Harrison in 1719. He was allowed to prove guns by the Gunmakers' Company between 1724 and 1731, and despite being told to give up work by the Gunmakers' Company he continued trading in Bond Street between 1735 and 1770, the year of his death