Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Pair Queen Anne pistols by Haywood of Boughton

Pukka Bundook · 18th September 2016, 02:56 PM

You show very good taste with these recent acquisitions Corrado!

Lovely, lovely pistols, and I have not seen that mask before.
I think the Queen Anne one of the most elegant ever produced.

I have not looked up Boughton, but would this be Charles Haywood, Apprenticed to Richard Lawrence in 1710?

I have a sad old but early William Bailes with the same sideplate but in brass.
It has the grotesque mask you show on your second pistol.
It would appear these pistols have private proof marks.
Thank you for showing these. they are wonderful and inspiring!!

Richard.

18th September 2016, 02:56 PM	#7
Pukka Bundook Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 803	You show very good taste with these recent acquisitions Corrado! Lovely, lovely pistols, and I have not seen that mask before. I think the Queen Anne one of the most elegant ever produced. I have not looked up Boughton, but would this be Charles Haywood, Apprenticed to Richard Lawrence in 1710? I have a sad old but early William Bailes with the same sideplate but in brass. It has the grotesque mask you show on your second pistol. It would appear these pistols have private proof marks. Thank you for showing these. they are wonderful and inspiring!! Richard.