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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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A Rare Russian Walrus-Ivory Priming-Flask image 1
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A Rare Russian Walrus-Ivory Priming-Flask
Mid-18th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Russian Walrus-Ivory Priming-Flask
Mid-18th Century

With body of slightly curved tapering ovoidal section carved in low relief along one side with a stag hunting scene in a wooden landscape framed within a border of rocailles, the sportsman firing his rifle at a stag beset by a hound, and with a similar sporting scene involving a hare and two birds along the other side, the top carved and pierced in the round with a hare pursued by a scaled monster behind the horned monster-head nozzle (reduced, old splits), and with later brass mounts and wooden base-plug
23 cm.

Footnotes

Cf. a similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour, 30 November 2006, lot 206

See Kurt G. Blüchel, Game & Hunting, 2004, pp. 298-299

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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.