MID-18TH CENTURY FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL BY DANIEL MOORE OF LONDON the 20.5cm steel barrel engraved 'D.L Moore of London' and with three proof marks, the steel lock plate engraved D Moore, the walnut stock with silver trigger guard, inlaid silver catouches and butt cast with a grotesque mask, London 1768, 36cm overall Note: Daniel Moore (1750 - 1801) made screw cannon barrel flintlock pocket pistols with musket butt caps. Under contract with the East India Company and made flintlock holster pistols and flintlock muskets. Shop in London (A. Merwyn Carey, English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, New York: Arco Publishing Company, 66).