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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
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A Very Rare Pair Of 18-Bore Breech-Loading Rifled Flintlock Carbines
By H. Delaney, Londini, Circa 1720

Antique Arms and Armour
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Pair Of 18-Bore Breech-Loading Rifled Flintlock Carbines
By H. Delaney, Londini, Circa 1720

With two-stage turn-off barrels each with rounded muzzle-ring, rifled with eight grooves and fitted with a hinged retaining link at the breech, the latter engraved with a symmetrical sprig of foliage and with a band of foliage at the rear, foliate scroll engraved tangs each secured by a screw and with a trefoil extending over the breech, border engraved actions each signed beneath the steel-spring, border engraved cocks (top jaws and screws old replacements) and steels decorated with foliage, figured moulded butts carved with foliage, and each inlaid with silver wire opposite the lock, border engraved steel mounts comprising chiselled foliate escutcheons each with owner's crest, butt-plates each engraved with a flower-head around the retaining screw at the heel and with slender tapering tang chiselled with foliage and extending along the comb of the butt, and trigger-guards each with trefoil-shaped finial (some pitting overall), London proof marks (2)
51.4 cm. barrels

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Provenance
Robin Wigington, Poet's Arbor, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Henry Delaney, a Huguenot, was admitted to the freedom of the Gunmakers' Company in 1715. He is recorded as a maker of fine breech-loading sporting guns and silver-mounted pistols, and was the maker of a large crossbow with built-in cranequin in the Marquis of Bath's collection, Longleat. See J.F. Hayward, 'The Huguenot Gunmakers of London', J.A.A.S., vol. VI, no. 4 (December 1968), pp. 124-5

Cf. a related carbine by the same maker and sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 26 November 2008, lot 375

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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.