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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 Rare French Flintlock Hand Mortar
The Lock Signed F. Hilbert A Strasbourg, Mid-18th 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 Rare French Flintlock Hand Mortar
The Lock Signed F. Hilbert A Strasbourg, Mid-18th Century

With heavy bell-shaped brass barrel turned and moulded at the muzzle and engraved 'Edel: Fondeur a Strasbourg No. 1', long iron tangs above and below secured by two screws, signed flat bevelled lock with exposed trigger at the rear of the lock-plate, figured butt (minor worming, repaired behind the tang) painted '11/4' at the grip and on the right side above the stamped Museum of Artillery mark, iron butt-plate, and large iron loop on a lug beneath the barrel
14 cm. barrel, 54.5 cm. overall

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Museum of Artillery, Rotunda, Woolwich, no. MA1522

Literature:
Official Catalogue Of The Museum of Artillery In Rotunda, Woolwich, H.M.S.O., London, 1874, p. 113, no.4
J.P. Kaestlin, Catalogue of the Museum of Artillery in the Rotunda at Woolwich, Part II, Personal Arms, H.M.S.O., London, 1963, p. 39, no. 4

A Franciscus Hilbert is recorded in Strasbourg between 1738 and the year of his death in 1784. He became a Master Forger in 1758

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