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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.
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Lot 121*

A Fine Silesian Wheel-Lock Tschinke Of Small Bore
Mid-17th Century

Fine Antique Arms and Armour Including items from the Per T. Norheim Collection
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £19,200 inc. premium

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A Fine Silesian Wheel-Lock Tschinke Of Small Bore
Mid-17th Century

With swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, retaining much of its original blueing and decorated with punched and gilt designs of scrolling foliage at the muzzle, mid-section and breech, long tang en suite, characteristic foliate engraved lock with brass plate over the wheel-bracket engraved with guilloche, and brass plate over the rear of the chiselled mainspring engraved with foliage, the last with button catch for setting the sear, engraved sliding pan-cover with release button, flash-guard engraved with a crouching feline monster, and pierced cock engraved with a winged monster and foliage, fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid with horn scrolls and pellets inhabited by hounds, hares and pairs of grotesques, a prone stag and bird on the underside, a profile grotesque head on either side of the barrel tang, a vacant mother-of-pearl oval between horn monsters on one side of the butt, and on the cheek-piece with a further vacant mother-of-pearl oval between demi-figures each playing a harp, a winged cherub's head above, enriched overall with engraved mother-of-pearl ball-flowers and a squirrel, sliding patch-box cover en suite, white horn butt-plate engraved with a flower, iron button and trigger-guard, the latter indented for the fingers, foliate engraved horn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, iron ramrod, probably original, and in fine condition
88.5 cm. barrel

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Provenance:
A.T. Scofield Collection according to a handwritten inscription on the inside of the patch-box cover
W. Keith Neal Collection

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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.