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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 And Rare Pair Of Silesian 40-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols image 1
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Lot 123*

A Fine And Rare Pair Of Silesian 40-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
Late 17th Century

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

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A Fine And Rare Pair Of Silesian 40-Bore Flintlock Holster Pistols
Late 17th Century

With three-stage barrels each with a slender ring at the muzzle and decorated with gilt panels of engraved and punched foliage, octagonal breeches becoming polygonal and tangs en suite, rounded locks with gilt pans and decorated with punched and damascened silver foliage, rounded cocks, the head of each retaining screw chiselled as a cherub-mask and with traces of gilding, fruitwood full stocks each profusely inlaid overall with horn scrolls and pellets inhabited by engraved foxes, hares, a bird opposite each lock and grotesques including two bagpipe players and a drummer, and enriched with mother-of-pearl birds, ball-flowers, acorns and pellets including a hound and a monster on either side of the barrel tang, all within horn lines, gilt-iron mounts comprising spurred pommels engraved and punched with a border of foliage, trigger-guards each with shaped finial and fluted bow, single baluster ramrod-pipes, horn rear ramrod-pipe and fore-end caps each engraved with scrollwork against a hatched ground, original ramrods with horn tips en suite, and in unusually fine condition (some wear to gilding) (2)
33.2 cm. barrels

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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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THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
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