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A Large Group Of Accessories Relating To Antique And Vintage Firearms, Nine Military Flintlock Mechanisms, And A Group Of Various Detached Barrels For Longarms Mostly 19th Century
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,250 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Large Group Of Accessories Relating To Antique And Vintage Firearms, Nine Military Flintlock Mechanisms, And A Group Of Various Detached Barrels For Longarms
Mostly 19th Century
Mostly 19th Century
The first comprising six turnscrews variously with swelling flattened wooden or horn handles and including a pair with turned and fluted swelling wooden handles; sixteen nipple-wrenches with similar wooden handles (one missing) to the last, five incorporating a threaded pricker; nineteen various powder- and shot-measures variously with turned wooden or horn handle and including three pairs, two by James Dixon & Sons, and one by G. & J.W. Hawksley; six combination tools, two in their leather pouches and each with detachable turnscrew head incorporating a pricker, three of T-shape and with threaded brass-headed pricker between, and one of plain form; a combination tool for Enfield military percussion service rifles; two 12-bore chamber brushes, one with turned swelling wooden handle and retaining its cap, the other with horn handle, retaining its cap and by Cogswell & Harrison; a ramrod for percussion revolvers; a striker cleaner with turned wooden handle; three Continental tubular powder-measures, two of brass and graduated along one side; twelve steel barrel-wrenches mostly incorporating a nipple-key; two mainspring-clamps; a steel bullet mould for casting conical bullets; three combination nipple-keys and turnscrews; two blued combined turnscrew and nipple-wrenches for Colt pocket model revolvers; five tins for percussion caps including one with label for '250 Starkey Imperial Gun Caps', and one for 'Eley's Superior Sporting Percussion Caps'; a tin of 'W. Tranters Patent Lubricating Composition'; and a tin of '100 Rifle Patches'; seven various turned wooden and bone nipple, striker and patch boxes; two metal oil bottles; eight various brass-tipped ramrods; three white-metal Vernier sights, one stamped 'W.W. Greener, Birmingham'; a further blued adjustable back-sight; a leather flint wallet; a Continental brass target crossbow mechanism; and various other items including threaded bore-brushes and mops; the second comprising an incomplete lock for a service pistol, with 'GR' crowned and signed 'Farmer' above the date '1744' on the tail, four locks for flintlock New Land Pattern service pistols, each engraved 'W.R' crowned (one top jaw missing, two incomplete), and four locks for flintlock service muskets (one incomplete, one cock and one top jaw and screw missing); the last in poor condition and comprising civilian and military double- and single barrels, some in the white and mostly with surface rust; together with a German detachable shoulder-stock, 18th century, of figured wood with cheek-piece lightly carved with foliage, faux butt-plate, patch-box cover with spring-catch, and steel mount, another (wormed, split and repaired) with steel butt-plate engraved 'HN 13', and sliding patch-box cover with horn mount, and the wooden butt and trigger-guard of a Continental flintlock sporting gun (broken through at the lock, minor worming) with chequered grip and faux butt-plate (a lot)








