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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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A Rare 140-Bore Seven-Barrelled Flintlock Box-Lock Pepperbox Revolver
By Henry Nock, London, Circa 1800

Withdrawn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

£3,500 - £4,500

A Rare 140-Bore Seven-Barrelled Flintlock Box-Lock Pepperbox Revolver
By Henry Nock, London, Circa 1800

With turn-off hand-rotated barrels numbered from '1' to '6', border engraved breeches numbered to correspond, border engraved white-metal breech-housing with medial line of overlapping foliage, white-metal pan, border engraved action signed within an oval against a martial trophy on one side, and with foliage on the other, border engraved ring-neck cock, engraved thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel, rollers, wing-headed tension adjuster on one side and another for retaining the barrels on the other, engraved sliding barrel-locking catch on the left, trigger-guard engraved with a starburst on the bow, vacant diamond-shaped silver escutcheon, and figured flat-sided butt (very minor worming) chequered along the spine (surface rust), Tower private proof marks
6.2 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Two similar examples have been sold in these Rooms. One by Bunney on 2 December 2004, lot 466, and another, by the same maker, on 1 December 2009, lot 604

Henry Nock took Livery of the Gunmakers' Company in 1795 and was elected Master in 1802. He was appointed Gunsmith-in-Ordinary to George III in 1789 and was the principle maker of seven-barrelled volley guns and rifles. He is recorded as having made a silver-mounted volley gun and pistol for George III, and a silver-mounted sporting rifle by him for the Prince of Wales is today in the collection of H.M. the Queen at Windsor Castle (inv. no. L154). He died in 1804

This pistol fires the first five barrels individually and the last two together, giving an impressive finale

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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.