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A rare flintlock pistol by Nicholas Paris, Warwick, signed ' N .Paris, Warwick ', 13 cm screw off
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A rare flintlock pistol by Nicholas Paris, Warwick, signed ' N .Paris, Warwick ', 13 cm screw off cannon barrel, engraved steel lock plate, cock and trigger guard, the walnut stock mounted with silver scrolls and engraved cartouche with the upper section of a rearing stag a leaf branch in its mouth, the silver but cap engraved with a bird and terminating in a lion's head, 30.5 cm. Nicholas Paris set up his business in Jury Street, Warwick in 1669 and was buried in Warwick on 5th October 1716.His most important patron was Thomas Leigh, 2nd Baron of Stoneleigh. As well as being a gunmaker, Paris also worked as a blacksmith, watch maker, gilder and enameller, and carried out various other works within the town of Warwick. For further information on the Paris family, the most inventive and adaptable English provincial gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, see Neal and Black, op cit., pp.265-70, 273-5 and J.F, Hayward, The Art of The Gunmaker, vol 11, pp.83-84
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A rare flintlock pistol by Nicholas Paris, Warwick, signed ' N .Paris, Warwick ', 13 cm screw off cannon barrel, engraved steel lock plate, cock and trigger guard, the walnut stock mounted with silver scrolls and engraved cartouche with the upper section of a rearing stag a leaf branch in its mouth, the silver but cap engraved with a bird and terminating in a lion's head, 30.5 cm. Nicholas Paris set up his business in Jury Street, Warwick in 1669 and was buried in Warwick on 5th October 1716.His most important patron was Thomas Leigh, 2nd Baron of Stoneleigh. As well as being a gunmaker, Paris also worked as a blacksmith, watch maker, gilder and enameller, and carried out various other works within the town of Warwick. For further information on the Paris family, the most inventive and adaptable English provincial gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, see Neal and Black, op cit., pp.265-70, 273-5 and J.F, Hayward, The Art of The Gunmaker, vol 11, pp.83-84
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