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A Pair Of Decorative All-Metal Flintlock Belt Pistols In Mid-18th Century Highland Style

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of Decorative All-Metal Flintlock Belt Pistols In Mid-18th Century Highland Style

Each with four-stage barrel engraved with foliated scrollwork, swelling muzzle of octagonal section, and fluted breech with raised slotted ramp at the rear, the locks engraved with scrollwork on a hatched ground and inscribed 'T. Murdoch', the cocks each with pierced disc behind the comb, iron three-quarter stock engraved en suite with the lock, ram's horn butt engraved with silvered running interlaced scrolls (silver worn), and with a vacant silver escutcheon on each side, trigger with engraved silver head, pricker with engraved iron head, engraved partly fluted belt hook with pierced and engraved rear terminal, and iron ramrod with turned pierced tip (2)
19.5 cm. barrels

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