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Lot 133
A Group Of Accessories And Other Items Mostly Relating To Antique And Vintage Firearms19th Century And Later
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,750 inc. premium
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19th Century And Later
19th Century And Later
Comprising three cartridge reloading tools for 12-bore and 16-bore cartridges respectively, the latter painted brown and stamped 'Greenfield's London'; three capping/decapping tools, two by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield, and stamped 'Harsley's patent' above a number, each with swelling wooden handle; a case-sizer for 12-bore cartridges; a nipple-key with swelling wooden handle retaining its threaded pricker; a glass oil bottle, the threaded cap stamped 'James Dixon & Sons' between the trade mark and number '212M'; two combination tools for Enfield percussion service rifles; two spring clamps; three barrel-wrenches, one incorporating a nipple-key; a patch-cutter; a James Dixon & Sons powder-measure; eleven tins of percussion cap tins, one with Eley Bros label for '500 Metal-Lined Caps' made expressly for Colt's Pt. Belt and Pocket Pistols'; twenty-two various incomplete lock mechanisms, mostly for flintlock longarms and pistols; and various other lock parts and items including a pewter snuff-box in the form of a d.b. flintlock pistol and retaining most of its painted and gilt decoration, eleven various miniature pistols and revolvers including three pin-fire fob-chain pistols, three steel candle snuffers, one stamped 'Cope & Cutler Patent', an early iron padlock, a set of brass scales, in their original oval tin, four sets of brass sovereign scales, each with instruction label and in its rectangular mahogany case, one in its brass case, the border engraved lid decorated with a flower-head, and a steel key; all contained in four brass-mounted wooden instrument cases (partitions removed), each lid with vacant shield-shaped brass escutcheon, and with folding brass carrying handle (a lot)








