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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 German Combined Hunting Sword And 150-Bore Flintlock Pistol
Circa 1760

Antique Arms and Armour
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A German Combined Hunting Sword And 150-Bore Flintlock Pistol
Circa 1760

With slightly curved blade (some rust staining and minor pitting) double-edged towards the point and etched with a panel of strapwork against a hatched ground and sprigs of foliage involving a running stag along one side of the forte, and with a running boar in front of the pistol on the other, the pistol with two-stage barrel retained by an iron ring, the action with external springs and folding trigger, the brass-mounted hilt with associated downturned shell-guard cast with Europa and the Bull framed by foliage against a punched ground, short rounded horizontally recurved quillons with foliate terminals, and spirally-grooved green-stained staghorn grip of tapering ovoidal section now with brass pommel-cap cast and chased with a hunting scene, in its black leather scabbard with brass chape
46.9 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
Fine Antique Arms Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, sold in these Rooms, 28 November 2007, lot 33

Literature:
G. de Vries and B.J. Martens, The Visser Collection, 2007, vol. 1, part 4, cat. no. 993, pp. 702-703

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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.