A Pair of Silver Inlaid 50-Bore Flintlock Cannon Barrelled Pocket Pistols by Bunney of London. With three-stage turn-off cannon barrels (both frozen) stamped below with Tower private proofs, deeply engraved actions decorated with scrolls surrounded by foliage and signed ‘BUNNEY’ to the left and ‘LONDON’ to the right, cocks and frizens decorated en suite, sliding trigger guard safety catches, swelling walnut butts inlaid with scrolling wire, retaining 100% of their silver, flat silver butt caps engraved with scrolling foliage, escutcheons engraved en suite. 

Bunney, Joseph (3 generations: father, son, grandson) [1730-1815]

Made brass cannon barrel boxlock flintlock pocket and coach pistols, and flintlock holster pistols with Royal Cypher; also cased flintlock duelling pistols with all accessories. Shops in London and Birmingham.

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

Dimensions:

Bore: 50 Bore

Barrel Length: 3 Inches (7.62 cm)

Overall Length: 8 Inches (20.32 cm)