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Lot 325

A Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Brass-Barrelled Travelling Pistols
By C. Lamb, Whitby, Circa 1825

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,812.50 inc. premium

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A Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Brass-Barrelled Travelling Pistols
By C. Lamb, Whitby, Circa 1825

With octagonal sighted barrels each signed along the top flat and with platinum-lined touch-hole, border engraved tangs engraved with foliate scrolls, signed border engraved case-hardened flat locks each decorated with a starburst behind the semi-rainproof pan and with foliage at the tail, foliate engraved cocks, safety-catches and rollers, figured full stocks each with dark horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded butt, the latter with white-metal lion-mask butt-cap, white-metal trigger-guards each with pineapple finial and foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, vacant white-metal escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, stirrup ramrods, and in fine untouched condition, Birmingham proof marks (2)
10.2 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Charles Lamb is recorded at Axtergate, Whitby, Yorkshire in 1827

Possibly intended for use by a naval officer

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