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A Hand-Ignited Powder-Tester, And Four Antique Pistols18th/19th Century
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £500 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Hand-Ignited Powder-Tester, And Four Antique Pistols
18th/19th Century
18th/19th Century
The first with rounded brass barrel stamped 'S. Cleeve' along one side and 'W. Hampton' along the other, raised touch-hole, circular brass indicator wheel acting against a spring, numbered from '1' to '8', and made in one with an anvil fitting against the muzzle, and hooked flat-sided wooden butt; the second comprising a 100-bore brass flintlock box-lock pocket pistol (worn, mechanism and cock missing), the action engraved 'London' beneath a garland on one side, and with flat-sided butt, Birmingham private proof marks, another of 54-bore, converted from flintlock to percussion, indistinctly signed against martial trophies, and in poor condition, London proof marks; another of 100-bore, with octagonal barrel, scroll engraved action (defective), chequered rounded butt, and vacant white-metal escutcheon (light pitting overall), London proof mark; and a Liège pin-fire six-shot revolver (incomplete, some surface rust and pitting), Liège proof (5)
The first 16 cm.
The first 16 cm.








