A Scarce Ferguson Breech Loading Flintlock Pistol by Jover.
A Scarce Silver Mounted Ferguson Breech Loading Flintlock Pistol by Jover. With round tapering barrel, blade fore-sight, the flat topped breech containing the loading plug and with gold poincon stamped ‘JOVER & SON LONDON’ gold touch hole, foliate engraved tang and screw, flat bevelled lock, stepped at the tail, signed ‘Jover’ in script and decorated with foliage at the tail, cock decorated en suite, re-stocked in walnut cut with a raised apron around the tang, original silver mounts comprising vacant oval escutcheon, long eared but cap with grotesque mask, baluster ramrod pipes with replacement horn-tipped ramrod.
Notes:
Sold at Wallis & Wallis 8th March 2022 – LOT 206.
The pistol has been re-stocked and professionally re-finished.
Jover
Mary Gunmaker, 26 Mortimer St., 1805-8
William 1 Partner in firm of Nock, Jover & Green, 83 Long Acre, 1775. Gunmaker, 337 Oxford St., 1777; 1780-4. Trade card stated ‘near the Pantheon’. Contractor to Ordnance (muskets), 1780. Became Jover & Son. See also Jover & Belton.
William 2 Son of William 1. In partnership with father as Jover & Son, 1784-96; Gunmaker, 65 New Bond Street, 1798-1801; 26 Mortimer St., 1802-10.
Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA.
Dimensions:
Bore: 32 Bore
Barrel Length: 10.5 Inches (26.67 cm)
Overall Length: 16 Inches (40.64 cm)
£3,500.00
1 in stock
