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Lot 313Ф,Y

A Very Rare Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Forsyth Patent Sliding Primer Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By Forsyth & Co., Patent Gun Maker's London, Nos. 2920 And 2921, Circa 1822

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Forsyth Patent Sliding Primer Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By Forsyth & Co., Patent Gun Maker's London, Nos. 2920 And 2921, Circa 1822

With octagonal sighted border engraved barrels each signed in full along the length of the top flat, serial numbered border engraved actions each finely engraved with designs of symmetrical foliage, engraved hammers and safety-catches en suite, folding triggers, finely chequered figured rounded butts each with threaded border engraved silver pommel-cap decorated with a flower-head, one opening to reveal the two-piece metal ramrod, and vacant silver escutcheons: in original mahogany case fitted and lined in green velvet with some accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask with bag-shaped papier-mâché(?) body, turnscrew retaining its brass pricker, and ivory priming-flask housing two spare strikers for the hammers, the exterior of the lid with circular vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks, one pistol with a trace of a Birmingham proof mark
8 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
W. Keith Neal Collection, C111
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 9 November 2000, lot 161

Literature:
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, 1969, pp. 12-13, pls. 6, 30 and 31
Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May, The Pleasure of Guns. The beautiful and intricate work of famous gunsmith's, 1974, p. 75 (illustrated)
D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, 1995, pp. 23 and 44, pls. 24, 25 and colour pl. IX

The small ivory priming-flask can be removed for shipping purposes

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