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Lot 340Ф,Y

A Fine Pair Of Cased 32-Bore Flintlock Travelling Pistols
By Ryan & Watson, Birmingham, Circa 1820

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Pair Of Cased 32-Bore Flintlock Travelling Pistols
By Ryan & Watson, Birmingham, Circa 1820

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels, case-hardened breeches each with platinum line and platinum-lined rectangular crowned maker's stamp of Ryan & Son. Birm.m, platinum-lined touch-holes, case-hardened breeches each with back-sight and decorated with a martial trophy and foliage, signed case-hardened border engraved flat bevelled locks each decorated with foliage on the stepped tail and ring-neck cock, the latter each held at half-cock by an engraved safety-catch, rainproof pans and rollers on steel-blued springs, the internal working parts retaining their burnished finish, highly figured half-stocks, blued steel trigger-guards and slotted ramrod-pipes, the former each with pineapple finial and decorated with a martial and foliage on the border engraved bow, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, original brass-mounted ramrods, and retaining virtually all their original finish: in associated re-lined and re-fitted mahogany case with accessories including powder-flask with bag-shaped body covered in red leather (minor damage at the base), the exterior of the lid with circular vacant brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
10.8 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
W. Keith Neal Collection, C61
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 8 November 1995, lot 296

Ryan & Watson are recorded as 'Manufactures of fowling pieces, rifle guns, air guns and pistols of every description'. They were in business in Birmingham between 1799 and 1818. The firm was probably succeeded by William Ryan & Son who are recorded between 1820 and 1835

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