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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
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A Very Rare English Stock For A Matchlock Or Snaphaunce Gun
Late 16th Century

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare English Stock For A Matchlock Or Snaphaunce Gun
Late 16th Century

In wormed and incomplete condition, inlaid overall with horn foliate scrollwork bearing engraved leaves, acorns and flowerheads, and retaining two horn panels engraved as a winged sea horse on one side of the fish-tail butt, and a Pelican in Piety on the other, all within horn lines, iron trigger, brass band at the fore-end, and wooden ramrod
153 cm.

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This appears to belong to a group of inlaid stocks found on English matchlock and snaphaunce guns dating from between 1584 to circa 1600. It is particularly close to that on a gun (No. XII.1785) in the Royal Armouries which is dated 1590. See J.F. Hayward, 'English Firearms of the 16th Century', Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, III (1959-61), pp. 117-41; idem, The Art of the Gunmaker, I, 1965, pp. 123-5; and C. Blair, 'A 16th-Century English Snaphaunce Gun', The Second Park Lane Arms Fair Catalogue, 1985, pp. 21-26. For a further very similar example removed from Newnham Hall, Northamptonshire see Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour Including Lafayette's Pistols, 16 June 1993, lot 117

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.