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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 And Unusual 140-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun In The Dutch Style image 1
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Lot 349*

A Rare And Unusual 140-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun In The Dutch Style
Early 18th Century, Probably Dutch East Indies

Antique Arms and Armour
28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare And Unusual 140-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun In The Dutch Style
Early 18th Century, Probably Dutch East Indies

Made for a youth, with long slightly swamped slender barrel, the octagonal breech section finely encrusted with silver scrollwork, strapwork, pellets and flowerheads, the forward section inlaid in silver with running symmetrical oval and heart-shaped designs enclosing engraved silver foliage (some losses), all against a background of engraved strapwork, and with silver fore-sight, silver-inlaid rectangular tang set within a shaped brass apron chased in low relief with silvered scrollwork and flowerheads and retained by brass nails, rounded lock chiselled in low relief with scrollwork picked out in silver and surrounded by an engraved brass panel retained by brass nails, moulded hardwood full stock, the butt with high comb (toe with minor damage), brass mounts mostly chased with scrollwork in relief, partly picked out in silver, shaped solid side-plate involving silvered flowerheads and fitted with two brass rings for suspension, four silver-encrusted brass baluster ramrod-pipes, brass and silver fore-end cap, and iron ramrod (tip missing), the external screws mostly with large domed brass-covered heads (some wear to metal parts)
110.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Cf. a similar gun sold at Christie's South Kensington, Fine Antique Arms and Armour, 12 December 1997, lot 139, and two guns in the H.L. Visser Collection, described and illustrated in J.P. Puype, The Visser Collection, Vol. I, 1996, Nos. HV 627-8

The decoration is very similar to that found on Ceylonese piha-kaettas

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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 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
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