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Lot 448

Three Brass-Mounted Powder-Flask For Pistols
The First Late 18th Century, The second By G. & J.W. Hawksley, The Last Stamped J. Barlow Patent, The Last Two Mid-19th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Three Brass-Mounted Powder-Flask For Pistols
The First Late 18th Century, The second By G. & J.W. Hawksley, The Last Stamped J. Barlow Patent, The Last Two Mid-19th Century

The first for a cased pair of Mortimer flintlock duelling pistols, the bag-shaped copper body with slender seam around the edge and central flute over both sides with a slender rounded border, ridged brass top, and turned brass nozzle also forming a powder-measure; the second for percussion pistols, with bag-shaped body embossed over each side with branches of oak centred on a fox mask, and surmounted by a stag's head, brass top (cut-off spring incomplete), adjustable nozzle calibrated from ⅜ to ⅝ Drams, and retaining much of its original lacquered finish; the last for percussion revolvers, with bag-shaped body, and slender graduated adjustable nozzle (some patination) (3)
12 cm. to 14.3 cm.

Footnotes

For the first see H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, 1992, p. 172, pl. 263 and p. 180, pl. 277

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