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Lot 505

A 40-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pistol With Hinged Under-Lever
By Innes, Edin.r, Gun Maker To His Majesty, Circa 1815

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 40-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pistol With Hinged Under-Lever
By Innes, Edin.r, Gun Maker To His Majesty, Circa 1815

With case-hardened turn-off barrel engraved around the muzzle and breech and fitted beneath with hinged lever of swelling tapering section with button terminal, breech signed in full and decorated with a starburst, border engraved rounded action decorated with a basket of foliage on the tang plate and with a martial trophy on one side, pierced cock engraved en suite (top jaw and screw old replacements), safety-catch also locking the steel, rainproof pan and external mainspring with roller, trigger-guard securing the lever and engraved with a flower-head on the bow, chequered figured rounded butt, border engraved silver butt-cap with owner's crest and initial 'H', and silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, Birmingham proof marks
4.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

The maker or retailer is James Innes recorded in Edinburgh between 1793 and 1820

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