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Originally Posted by kahnjar1
... the other is that they don't appear to have an inset escutcheon, on which the owner would normally have his name/initials engraved ...
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When wire inlay was used (a trend that increased towards the second half XVIII century), several Queen Anne pistols did not have the classic estucheon (thumplate), but eventually a simulation in the same place, designed with the silver wire decoration, like in my example. Only that connoisseurs claim that Britsh inlay was a finer work ... but that is very contingent, as we know.
Fernando