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A Neapolitan 16-Bore Miquelet-Lock Belt Pistol Circa 1770
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £701.25 inc. premium
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Circa 1770
Circa 1770
With two-stage barrel turned at the muzzle and girdle, octagonal breech section with gold-lined mark for Naples (Neue Støckel, 8672) below two gold-lined fleur-de-lys marks on the top flat in front of the plain tang, the left flat stamped with an 'H' mark, flat bevelled patilla lock, figured full stock (old chip and split beneath the lock) inlaid with pierced brass panels engraved with foliage, the panel on the fore-end involving a grotesque mask, and the one around the barrel tang with a female portrait bust in contemporary costume including a feathered hat, ball pommel inlaid with brass en suite and centred on an engraved martial trophy, brass side-plate and fore-end cap engraved with foliage against a hatched ground and both inhabited by a bird, iron mounts including spur trigger-guard chiselled with a scallop shell, and scroll trigger (ramrod missing)
19.5 cm. barrel
19.5 cm. barrel








