Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 218

A Liège 50-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock D.B. Pistol
By G. Devillers A Liège, Mid-18th Century

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £892.50 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Arms and Armour specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

A Liège 50-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock D.B. Pistol
By G. Devillers A Liège, Mid-18th Century

With turn-off cannon barrels each rifled with eight grooves and engraved 'No. 1' and 'No. 2' respectively at the breech, border engraved octagonal breeches and action, the former signed over each side and numbered to correspond with the barrels, the latter decorated with rocailles and foliage on both sides, circular pans with steel divider, figured moulded butt carved in low relief with foliage behind the tang, steel mounts decorated en suite with the action and comprising spurred pommel and trigger-guard, the former with ovoidal cap of graduated steps (some old light pitting), counterfeit London proof marks and Foreigner's marks
13.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Guillaume Devillers is recorded in Liège between 1750 and 1783

Additional information

Bid now on these items

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.

A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.

THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.