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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
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A Rare Dutch 40-Bore Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol
By Pierre Savage, The Hague, Circa 1640

Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,812.50 inc. premium

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A Rare Dutch 40-Bore Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol
By Pierre Savage, The Hague, Circa 1640

With swamped octagonal barrel, brass fore-sight, short tang, rounded lock retained by three screws and signed upside-down on the tail in decorative cursive script and struck on the inside with a mark, 'IH' or 'HI', slightly domed external wheel engraved with a large concentric calyx around the spindle and with an engraved hook at its rear, cock without bridle, manually operated sliding pan-cover, walnut full stock (old repaired crack) with a long raised panel behind the barrel tang, iron trigger-guard, fore-end band and single ramrod-pipe, and iron-tipped ramrod, the flattened oval pommel bound with an iron band and with white bone cap (iron parts with some wear and minor scattered surface pitting)
44.8 cm. barrel

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Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, 28 November 2007, lot 275

Literature
G. de Vries and B.J. Martens, The Visser Collection, vol. I, part 4, cat. no. 857, pp. 406-407

For a similar pistol see J.P. Puype, The Visser Collection, vol. I, part I, cat. no. 181, pp. 500-501

According to Der Neue Støckel there were two Pierre Sauvages, the father (1585/90 -1659), who came from Vervier near Liège to the The Hague between 1631 and 1637, and his son (1614/15 -1669), who probably accompanied his father. In Holland, they also used the Dutch version of their name: Pieter Wilt. It is likely that the present pistol was made by the father as he is frequently referred to as 'Pistoolmaecker' whereas his son is often mentioned as a stockmaker

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.