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An Extremely Rare Scottish 22-Bore All-Metal Snaphaunce Belt Pistol With Left-Hand LockEarly 17th Century, Possibly Dundee
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Find your local specialistAn Extremely Rare Scottish 22-Bore All-Metal Snaphaunce Belt Pistol With Left-Hand Lock
Early 17th Century, Possibly Dundee
Early 17th Century, Possibly Dundee
28 cm. barrel
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This is an example of the rare early type of Scottish pistol characterised by its lemon-shaped butt-pommel. Examples are found stocked in wood, iron and, most commonly, brass, and range in date from 1614 to the 1630s. As in this case the brass stocks are usually decorated with engraving, but this is unusual in including decorative piercings on the pommel also. This feature appears to be otherwise recorded only on a very similar pistol in the Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery (no. 1874.29), bearing the unidentified maker's mark 'IC' on the lock-plate. See G. Boothroyd, 'Scottish Pistols', J.A.A.S., Vol. VI (1968-70), p. 153, pl. XXIX, A; and C. Blair & R.C. Woosnam-savage, Scottish Firearms, Bloomfield, Ontario, 1995, pp. 27-29








