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An 18-Bore Flintlock D.B. Travelling PistolBy Reddell, London, Early 19th Century
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,402.50 inc. premium
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An 18-Bore Flintlock D.B. Travelling Pistol
By Reddell, London, Early 19th Century
By Reddell, London, Early 19th Century
With twist sighted barrels signed along the rib and each indistinctly stamped 'Narrow Twisted' beneath at the breech, the breeches each with engraved border at the rear and with platinum-lined touch-hole, border engraved tang engraved with foliage and with a starburst in the sighting groove, signed border engraved flat bevelled locks each decorated with starbursts and foliage, foliate engraved 'French' cocks (top of each replaced), semi-rainproof pans, engraved safety-catches, and rollers, figured half-stock with dark horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded butt, steel trigger-guard with pineapple finial and decorated with a martial trophy on the border engraved bow, vacant silver escutcheon and white-metal barrel-bolt escutcheons, and stirrup ramrod (some wear and patination), London proof marks
18 cm. barrels
18 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Almost certainly by George S. Reddell recorded as 'Gunmaker & Sword Cutler to their R.H. The Prince Regent, Dukes of Sussex & Cambridge & Royal Museum'. He was at various addresses in the West End of London between 1802 and 1821, and supplied 'pattern pistols' to the Prince Regent's Collection, Carlton House in 1810








