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Lot 341

A Cased 26-Bore Flintlock D.B. Travelling Pistol
By Jas. Wilkinson & Son, London, No. 1202 For 1817

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,875 inc. premium

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A Cased 26-Bore Flintlock D.B. Travelling Pistol
By Jas. Wilkinson & Son, London, No. 1202 For 1817

With re-browned twist sighted barrels signed along the rib, case-hardened breeches engraved with a starburst between and each with two gold lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, grooved border engraved tang decorated with foliage involving a martial trophy, signed border engraved flat bevelled locks retaining some case-hardening and each decorated with a martial trophy and foliage at the stepped tail, ring-neck cocks en suite and each held at half-cock by an engraved safety-catch, semi-rainproof pans and rollers, figured half-stock with chequered rounded butt and flattened fish tail pommel, blued steel trigger-guard with pineapple finial and decorated with a martial trophy on the border engraved D-shaped bow (minor rust patination), rear ramrod-pipe with scallop shell finial, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's initials, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original horn-tipped ramrod, and some original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including powder-flask retaining much original finish, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label (minor damage) with 12 Ludgate Hill address, the exterior with circular border engraved escutcheon engraved with owner's initials 'WP' and incorporating a flush-fitting brass carrying handle, London proof marks
12.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

James Wilkinson & Son are recorded at 12 Ludgate Hill, London, between 1819 and 1828

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