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Lot 304

A Fine And Rare Cased 80-Bore Percussion Target Pistol With Telescopic Sight And Attachable Skeleton Butt
By Robertson, Haddington, No. 442, Mid-19th Century

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,937.50 inc. premium

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A Fine And Rare Cased 80-Bore Percussion Target Pistol With Telescopic Sight And Attachable Skeleton Butt
By Robertson, Haddington, No. 442, Mid-19th Century

With brown twist octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight bright grooves, signed along the top flat and fitted with blued dovetailed mounts for the telescopic sight, border engraved case-hardened breech decorated with foliate scrollwork and with pierced platinum plug, case-hardened tang decorated en suite, signed border engraved case-hardened flat detented lock and dolphin hammer decorated with scrolling foliage, engraved safety-catch (defective), highly figured half-stock with dark horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded grip, the latter with chequered steel mount for the skeleton butt, border engraved steel mounts decorated en suite with the lock and comprising blued serial numbered trigger-guard, case-hardened ovoidal butt-cap with hinged circular butt-trap cover, and rear ramrod-pipe, vacant silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, original brass-mounted ramrod, and retaining nearly all its original finish: in original lined and fitted veneered mahogany case with accessories including browned twist telescopic sight (leather eyepiece perished) signed 'Adie & Son, Edinburgh', brass-mounted three-way powder-flask, steel bullet mould and sprue-cutter, mallet and other items, the interior of the lid housing the black leather-covered (some loss of finish) skeleton butt and with maker's trade label, the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, the whole set in fine condition, London proof marks
24.2 cm. barrel

Footnotes

A J. Robertson is recorded in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland between 1840 and 1851

A handwritten tag offered with the lot reads: 'This pistol is one of two made for Sir David Davidson of Morningside, Edinburgh (verified)'

Sir David Davidson was born in Haddington, Perthshire in 1811 and died in Edinburgh in 1900. His citation reads 'retired Major of The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade and the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), and the monument at his burial place records that he was Bombay Army and Colonel of the Queen's Edinburgh Volunteer Brigade. His son, David Albert Davidson (born 1854), is recorded as living in Morningside, Edinburgh in 1901

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