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A 50-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol
By H. Bales, Ipswich, Circa 1815

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

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A 50-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol
By H. Bales, Ipswich, Circa 1815

With turn-off barrel engraved with a broad band of foliage around the muzzle and numbered '1' at the breech, border engraved rounded brass action signed beneath the rectangular pan and engraved with a differing trophy of arms on each side, engraved thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel (top jaw and screw replaced), folding trigger, chequered rounded butt with silver butt-cap, the latter engraved with a starburst centred on the retaining screw, and vacant diamond-shaped silver escutcheon, Birmingham proof mark
4.2 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Henry Bales is recorded as working for Forsyth & Co. in London from about 1808 before setting up on his own at 2 Upper James Street, Golden Square in 1811. He is recorded working in Ipswich between 1814 and 1830, and died in 1835

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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.