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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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A Fine 140-Bore Flintlock Rifled Turn-Off Pocket Pistol
By W. Upton Of Oxford, Circa 1665

Antique Arms and Armour and Modern Sporting Guns
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine 140-Bore Flintlock Rifled Turn-Off Pocket Pistol
By W. Upton Of Oxford, Circa 1665

With cannon barrel with turned muzzle-ring and mid-section, engraved with bands of foliage and rifled with eight grooves, the breech octagonal the polygonal, the rear part engraved with foliage and indistinctly signed on a draped ribbon, engraved integral tang, border engraved rounded lock (mechanism and one side-nail expertly replaced by Mr. Cooper, the original parts offered with the lot) decorated with a warrior armed with a falchion and shield, and with a naked bowman on the tail, fitted with horizontal sear and engraved dog-catch, the latter automatically released at the full cock position, moulded finely figured rootwood half-stock (minor split and repairs beneath the lock) carved with a scroll on each side of the barrel tang, mounts comprising chiselled and engraved monster side-plate spewing pierced and chiselled foliage, cast and chased silver escutcheon with pierced foliate border and a grotesque mask above, globose pommel engraved with a flowerhead centred on the retaining screw and around the border with foliage terminating in a pair of monsters above and wrestling demi-figures beneath, trigger-plate engraved with foliage and a further armed warrior, and button trigger without guard (some wear and rust patination)
4.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance:
Clay P. Bedford Collection, No. 1104

Literature:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Early Firearms of Great Britain and Ireland from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford, 1971, p. 57, No. 47
J.S. Cooper, For Commonwealth & Crown: English Gunmakers of the Seventeenth Century, 1993, pp. 213-4
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. 76, figs. 94-5
Brian Godwin, David Oliver, Martin Pegler and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage, 'Early English Firearms. A Loan Exhibition from the Royal Armouries and Private Collections', ibid, p. 17, fig. 19
John S. Cooper, The Upton's of Oxford - Gunmakers (in press)

For a similar pistol by the same maker sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 10 November 2005, lot 92

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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