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Lot 300

A Cased Pair Of 25-Bore Percussion Travelling Pistols
By Cartmell Of Doncaster, Circa 1820

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,422.50 inc. premium

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A Cased Pair Of 25-Bore Percussion Travelling Pistols
By Cartmell Of Doncaster, Circa 1820

Rebuilt from flintlock, with rebrowned sighted barrels each engraved with foliage on a ledge in front of the sighting flat, breeches each with three platinum lines, foliate engraved tangs each with back-sight, signed border engraved flat bevelled locks each decorated with foliage and retaining some case-hardening, hammers en suite and with detachable striker retained by a blued spring, figured full stocks with chequered rounded butts, reblued steel trigger-guards and slotted ramrod-pipes, the former each with pineapple finial and decorated with a Britannia shield and foliage on the border engraved bow, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and original brass-mounted ramrods: in contemporary lined and fitted mahogany case (some compartments loose) with brass-mounted three-way powder-flask and loading rod, the exterior of the lid with shaped escutcheon and flush-fitting brass carrying handle engraved with owner's name 'T. Walkden', Birmingham proof marks
9 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 24 November 1999, lot 244

Thomas Cartmell is recorded in Manchester, Lancashire between 1817 and 1822

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