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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 Cased 18-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Durs Egg, London, Circa 1800

Antique Arms & Armour
22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Cased 18-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Durs Egg, London, Circa 1800

With rebrowned twist two-stage barrel with gold cross-shaped fore-sight, turned and chiselled girdle, octagonal breech signed in gold along the top flat and with two gold lines at the rear, gold-lined touch-hole, border engraved tang with a starburst in the groove and decorated with a sporting trophy and foliage, case-hardened border engraved flat bevelled lock signed in script in front of a palm tree and with a gundog and bird at the stepped tail, engraved cock, gold-lined rainproof pan and roller, the internal working parts retaining most of their original blued and burnished finish, figured half-stock with chequered grip, border engraved iron mounts comprising butt-plate with a gundog and bird in a landscape on the heel, trigger-guard in the French taste decorated en suite, signed within an oval on the bow, and retaining some original blueing on the inside, blued rear ramrod-entry also forming a fore-end cap and engraved with a starburst, vacant gold escutcheon and silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original brass-tipped ramrod, and some original finish: in contemporary lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including D. Egg patent powder-flask with 132 Strand address, no. 490, and G. & J.W. Hawksley shot-flask with tooled bag-shaped body, the interior of the lid with trade label of D. Egg, 132 Strand, London for circa 1805-17, the exterior of the lid with circular brass escutcheon incorporating a flush-fitting carrying handle, London proof marks
81 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance:
W. Keith Neal Collection, C159. Purchased from Scamell in 1945 for £12
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 8 November 1995, lot 149

The case is serial numbered 613. The label is inscribed in ink 'Favorite gun' (obscured) and dated 1813

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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.
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