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Lot 142
A Very Rare Dutch Flintlock TinderlighterMid-17th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,500 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Very Rare Dutch Flintlock Tinderlighter
Mid-17th Century
Mid-17th Century
Of pistol form, with steel box-lock body engraved along the top with an artilleryman firing his field cannon, plain tang, circular pan, and hinged side-plate with simple catch, external mechanism engraved with foliage (top jaw and screw replaced), figured hardwood stock (inlet repair beneath the 'barrel') with ovoidal butt and carved with foliage on the back behind the barrel tang, ovoidal ebony pommel against a shim of white stag horn or bone and secured by a screw, and steel trigger-guard (replaced)
18.5 cm.
18.5 cm.








