A Very Rare Composite 22-Bore 'English-Lock' (Type 1) Pistol

A Very Rare Composite 22-Bore 'English-Lock' (Type 1) Pistol Circa 1640 With three-stage barrel incised with triple lines at the muzzle, mid-section and at the part octagonal breech, the latter with cusped back-sight at the rear, plain tang, flat lock (mainspring replaced) secured by three side-nails and with sear protruding through the back-plate and engaging with the tail of the cock, buffer, separate pan secured by an external screw, and bridle to the steel-spring, figured full stock (fore-end and bottom of butt with old repairs) carved with chevrons around the tang (old repair above the lock), iron mounts comprising flat ovoidal pommel-cap secured by a screw, later fore-end strap and ramrod-pipe, and later button trigger and ramrod (some old wear and rust patination), indistinct proof marks and barrelsmith's mark 18.3 cm. barrel Footnotes: Provenance William G. Renwick Collection Sotheby & Co., London, Highly Important Firearms from the collection of the late William Goodwin Renwick (European, Part V), 12 November 1973, lot 14 Literature Torsten Lenk, The Flintlock: its origin and development, 1965, p. 4, figs. 1 & 4 John Cooper and Brian Godwin, 'A Group of Small English Pistols 1600 to 1660', The Seventeenth Park Lane Arms Fair Catalogue, 2000, p. 9, fig. 2 Brian C. Godwin, John S. Cooper and Michael G. Spencer, 'The English Flintlock: its Origins and Development', The 20th Anniversary London Park Lane Arms Fair Catalogue, 2003, p. 63, figs. 49 & 50 Considered by the authors to be one of the earliest examples of the English lock For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing