xxSOLDxx MATCHED PAIR OF BUCKS COUNTY KENTUCKY PISTOLS

Beautiful matched pair of Bucks County Pennsylvania Kentucky pistols. Each measuring14 3/4 inches overall, with 9 inch round .58cal brass barrels, each with commercial London proofs and "LONDON" engraved on top the barrels.  Each full stocked tiger maple pistol has its original "fiddle" type finish, found in the Lehigh and Bucks County region. The matching brass mounts, with matching engraving, are also of the type found in the Bucks County area and the barrel ferrules are round (not faceted) and is also typical of the Bucks Co. region. The final feature which clinches the Bucks County attribution are the nose caps which are made of sheet brass and are only 3/8" wide with the forestock end grain visible at the muzzle. **SOLD**

Condition: Matching Sharpe neatly reconverted flintlocks.  There is no replaced wood on either pistols, and each pistol has its original mellow fiddle finish.  There are splits on one pistol running roughly from the frizzen pivot forward 5" and with a depth of 1/4" at the lock to "0" where it runs out. No wood is replaced however. This same pistol has a crack (again on the lock side) at the forward barrel pin into the ramrod channel. The crack does not run across the full forestock and it is not cracked through to the obverse side.  The second pistol has no cracks on the lock side but does have an ancient stable crack running from the forward cross-lock bolt about 3".