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Lot 157*

A Danish 15-bore 1753 model flintlock military pistol
No. 9, circa 1760

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £1,800

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A Danish 15-bore 1753 model flintlock military pistol
No. 9, circa 1760

With sighted barrel struck with two marks at the octagonal breech and engraved 'No:65B' along one side, grooved tang, rounded lock (top jaw and screw replaced, comb of cock reduced) engraved with crowned 'F5' conjoined (for King Frederick V, reigned 1746-1766), moulded figured full stock (fore-end mostly replaced), regulation brass mounts including serial numbered scroll side-plate and spurred pommel, brass fore-end band and turned ramrod-pipes, and brass-mounted ramrod
31.4 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Cf. two other examples sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 24 April 2013, lot 303, and Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 31 July 2013, lot 534

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