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A Fine And Rare Pair Of Irish 16-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock PistolsBy Trulock, Probably Thomas Of Dublin, Dublin Silver Hallmarks, Circa 1775
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,000 inc. premium
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By Trulock, Probably Thomas Of Dublin, Dublin Silver Hallmarks, Circa 1775
By Trulock, Probably Thomas Of Dublin, Dublin Silver Hallmarks, Circa 1775
With swamped two-stage barrels (light surface pitting) each turned at the girdle and retaining some original blueing beneath, octagonal breeches each struck with seven gold-lined fleur-de-lys marks, gold-lined touch-holes, tangs grooved for sighting and chiselled with foliage, bevelled flat locks each with elaborate foliate signature and decorated with engraved and chiselled foliage involving banners at the stepped tail, chiselled cocks, gold-lined pans and steels, and unusual anti-friction link between the steel and steel-spring (one link missing), the latter each with small acorn finial, moulded figured full stocks (chipped around the locks and barrel-bolt entries, one butt split) carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plates involving flower-heads and a rocaille, escutcheons with a shell above, foliage below and each engraved with owner's crest, border engraved spurred pommels (one dented) each with grotesque mask cap and cast and engraved with shells and foliage, trigger-guards with elaborate shell and foliage finial and engraved with a flower-head on the bow, silver ramrod-pipes, scroll triggers, engraved barrel-bolts, and original horn-tipped ramrods (one tip replaced), one with iron worm (2)
20.7 cm. barrels
20.7 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Thomas Trulock is recorded at College Green, Dame Street and Suffolk Street, Dublin between 1758 and 1798
For a pair of very similar pistols by the same maker and with side-plates of identical design in the Victoria and Albert Museum (No. M.1448 & A-1929), see Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, 1968, p. 104, fig. 268 and 269








