Queen Anne pistol ... or the like

[fernando]

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 ...

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