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Lot 224*

An Unusual 18-Bore Percussion Silver-Mounted Rifled Officer's Carbine
By Beckwith, London, No. 1751, London Silver Hallmarks For 1819, Beckwith's Silversmith's Mark

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual 18-Bore Percussion Silver-Mounted Rifled Officer's Carbine
By Beckwith, London, No. 1751, London Silver Hallmarks For 1819, Beckwith's Silversmith's Mark

Converted from flintlock, with twist damascus sighted barrel russet along the upper surfaces, signed on a gold-inlaid foliate scroll in front of the folding leaf back-sight and rifled with nine grooves, breech with two gold lines and platinum-lined vent, tang engraved with a martial trophy and foliage, border engraved detented flat bevelled lock (hammer replaced, pan-shield incomplete) signed on a gold-inlaid foliate scroll and with engraved safety-catch, rainproof pan, nipple mounted on the steel and roller, figured full stock (some old bruising, fore-end with small chip on each side, toe of butt slightly damaged) originally inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and foliage along the fore-end, around the barrel tang, and on either side of the forward part of the comb, chequered pistol-grip, mounts cast and chased in relief with trophies of arms and comprising side-plate, border engraved butt-plate with hinged rectangular patch-box cover decorated with martial trophy, trigger-guard, engraved turned ramrod-pipes, border engraved barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end plate, sling loops, and stirrup ramrod, London proof marks
48.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

William Andrew Beckwith was apprenticed to Wattell Clark in 1785. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1808, 1814, 1825 and in 1840, the year before his death. He is recorded at 58 Skinner Street, Snow Hill, London, between 1802 and 1841, and at 125 Strand, London, between 1818 and 1820

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