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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 German 32-Bore Wheel-Lock Carbine
Late 16th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A German 32-Bore Wheel-Lock Carbine
Late 16th Century

With octagonal sighted barrel etched with bands of foliage and ropework at the slightly swamped muzzle and breech, the upper three flats etched over their entire length to the muzzle with Saxon arms in an oval, a standing female figure in contemporary costume holding a heart, a pelican in piety, a male figure in contemporary costume labelled 'Antoo', an a fantastical bird, each in a scaled cartouche on a dotted ground, all the decoration between foliate scrollwork against a blackened ground, wooden full stock veneered in ebony inlaid with roped staghorn borders enclosing mother-of-pearl panels engraved with hounds pursuing hares along each side of the fore-stock, on the cheek-piece with figures including two horsemen, and in front of the trigger-guard with the figure of a woman in contemporary costume and two grotesque masks above and below a profile male helmeted head, all against a ground of stylised staghorn foliage partly stained green, iron trigger-guard indented for the fingers, baluster trigger, and later ramrod (lock and patch-box cover missing, stock and inlays damaged and incomplete); together with a russet 25-bore barrel converted to percussion, of tapering circular section chiselled with bands of acanthus against a punched ground at the slightly flared muzzle, two panels of foliage between inlaid silver lines behind, the forward section with slender silver-inlaid medial ridge and two pairs of rectangular panels of chiselled foliage between silver lines behind, and the breech chiselled with two rectangular panels en suite and with a squatting demon between pairs of scrolled serpents beyond (surface rust overall) (2)
68 cm. and 123 cm. barrels

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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.