An Early Flintlock Queen Anne Pistol by Segalas

An Early Flintlock Queen Anne Pistol by Segalas Londini, Circa 1720. With round, two-stage turn-off barrel, stamped below the breech with London proof and barrel smiths mark, foliate engraved tang, border engraved action signed underneath the spring, SEGALAS LONDINI cock decorated en suite, swelling walnut butt with raised moulding around the tang and lock, scrolling side-plate and beautiful lions head mask. A scarce early Queen Anne.

SEGALAS/SEGALLAS/SIGALLAS/SIGLASS/GALISSE
Elizabeth Widow of Israel (1). Gunmaker, Green St., Leicester Fields, 1738-45
Israel 1 Arquebusier from Navaret, Bearn, France, member of French Church of Leicester Fields, 1702. At Church of the Tabernacle, Milk Alley, m. 1711. Gunmaker, Green St., Leicester Fields, free of Gunmakers Co., by redemption, 1715. Member of French Masonic Lodge, 1725. Died 1735.
Israel 2 Son of Israel (1) born 1714. Apprenticed to Lewis Barber, 1729; free of Gunamkers Co., 1745. In par. St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Married 1746. Gunmaker, Green St., Leicester Fields, free of Gunmakers Co., 1752; Proofmaster, 1763; dismissed (no longer capable) 1772. Admitted to Huguenot Hospital of la Providence, London 1773. Died 1774.
John Son of Israel (1) Apprenticed to Joseph Hawley in Gunmakers Co., 1773. Note: A number of pistols, often of all steel construction, have been noted bearing the spurious signature ‘Segalas’ or wide variations of. These appear to have been made in Liege.

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

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