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Lot 378

A Rare Pair Of Irish Flintlock Travelling Or Overcoat Pistols Of Carbine Bore
By Wm. & Jno. Rigby, Dublin, Early 19th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Pair Of Irish Flintlock Travelling Or Overcoat Pistols Of Carbine Bore
By Wm. & Jno. Rigby, Dublin, Early 19th Century

With re-browned twist sighted barrels each engraved 'Dublin' within the sighting groove along the top and engraved with a band of foliage at the rear of the breech, grooved tangs each engraved with foliage, platinum-lined touch-holes, signed border engraved flat bevelled locks decorated with foliage and each with foliate engraved cock, safety-catch, rainproof pan and roller, figured full stocks (some old bruising) with chequered rounded butts, the latter each with hinged border engraved cover along the back decorated with foliage, secured by a spring catch and opening to reveal cavities for balls, foliate engraved steel mounts including butt-caps and trigger-guards, the latter each with pineapple finial, ovoidal white-metal vacant escutcheon on each side-flat, and original brass-mounted ramrods (2)
9.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

An example of early pre-serial number Rigby pistols. Serial numbering began in 1821, starting with number 5337

Cf. a related pair of pistols sold in these Rooms, The Daniel Williams Collection..., 28 November 2018, lot 119

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