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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
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A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock 1756 Pattern Land Service Pistol
By Grice, Dated 1760

Antique Arms and Armour
25 July 2012, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,500 inc. premium

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A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock 1756 Pattern Land Service Pistol
By Grice, Dated 1760

With plain barrel and tang, border engraved rounded lock with 'GR' crowned and signed above the date across the tail, figured moulded full stock with shallow apron around the tang, regulation brass mounts including shaped rounded side-plate, spurred pommel and shaped vacant escutcheon, brass ramrod-pipes, and later brass-tipped ramrod (iron parts with light rust patination), King's proof marks and Grice's barrelsmith's mark
30.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For a similar example by Grice of the same date and sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour..., 25 July 2007, lot 378

See also De Witt Bailey, Ph.D., Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783, 1997, p.62, pl.89

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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.