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Lot 124*
A Scottish 28-Bore All-Steel Flintlock Belt PistolEarly 18th Century, Probably By John Stuart
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,375 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Scottish 28-Bore All-Steel Flintlock Belt Pistol
Early 18th Century, Probably By John Stuart
Early 18th Century, Probably By John Stuart
With four-stage barrel engraved with running scrollwork and cusped decoration on the flaring octagonal muzzle and with two symmetrical foliate panels on the main section, the breech partly formed with raised longitudinal ribs behind an engraved monogram, and with slotted ramp at the rear, plain rounded lock signed with initials 'IS' flanked by an arrow-head, three-quarter stock engraved on the underside with double lines and with crossed lines on each side of the ram's horn butt, short belt hook, spirally engraved button trigger, original pricker with plain bulbous head, and iron ramrod, probably original, with turned tip
19.7 cm. barrel
19.7 cm. barrel
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Provenance
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.
The maker of this pistol is probably the same as that of the flintlock gun dated 1703, formerly in the R.T. Gwynn Collection, the silver-inlaid snaphaunce belt pistol dated 1672, formerly in the W. Keith Neal Collection, the pair of pistols dated 1701 formerly in the Seafield armoury, and a small wooden-stocked heart-butt pistol. All but the pistol dated 1672 are in the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh








