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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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A Fine Cased .500 Percussion Presentation Sporting Rifle
Unsigned, Circa 1854

Fine Antique Arms & Armour Including An Important Group Of British Firearms
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium

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A Fine Cased .500 Percussion Presentation Sporting Rifle
Unsigned, Circa 1854

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel (light scattered surface patination) engraved with recipient's name 'J.H. Thornhill Esquire' along the top flat at the breech and rifled with four bright spiral grooves, three blued folding leaf back-sights each with central platinum line, case-hardened breech with two gold lines and engraved with foliate scrollwork on top, pierced platinum plug, border engraved case-hardened tang decorated with foliate scrollwork, case-hardened flat detented lock and hammer decorated en suite, highly figured half-stock (minor damage) with chequered grip and fore-end, the latter with dark horn cap, border engraved blued steel mounts all decorated with foliate scrollwork and comprising butt-plate, spur trigger-guard, case-hardened trigger-plate with shaped finial, blued set trigger, engraved barrel-bolt escutcheons, sling mounts, original brass-mounted ramrod, and retaining virtually all its original finish: in original lined and fitted brass-mounted mahogany case (lock mechanism missing) with accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask embossed with a scallop shell on each side, brass bullet-mould, patch-cutter and leather sling, the exterior of the lid (old split) with flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a vacant circular escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
75.3 cm. barrel

Footnotes

A newspaper cutting hand dated April 1854 and pasted to the inside of the lid reads: 'On Tuesday the 18th instant, a handsome case, containing a very superior got up rifle piece, &c, was presented to J.H. Thornhill. Esq., Surgeon, Darlaston by Mr James Wilkes, at the Vine Inn, of the same place, as a mark of gratitude for the kind attention paid to him by that gentleman during his late illness; a circumstance which the medical profession seldom have the opportunity of boasting of.'

A James Wilkes is recorded working in Darlaston, Staffordshire between 1854 and 1872

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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