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Lot 333

An Extremely Rare And Unusual 16-Bore Flintlock And Percussion Rifled Saw-Handled Pistol
Signed Lacy & Co. Patent, No. 101, Circa 1830

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Extremely Rare And Unusual 16-Bore Flintlock And Percussion Rifled Saw-Handled Pistol
Signed Lacy & Co. Patent, No. 101, Circa 1830

With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrel (retaining bolt replaced) rifled with eight grooves, serial numbered and engraved 'Twisted' along the bottom flat, recessed patent breech with rectangular gold-lined maker's mark (obscured), gold lines and foliate engraving along each side flat, raised platinum-lined touch-hole, foliate engraved tang with back-sight, signed border engraved serial numbered lock (safety-catch incomplete), the inside engraved with crowned 'SD' (possible for Samson Davis), pivoting devolving rainproof pan and serial numbered nipple-bolster, the latter with silver plug, secured in their relevant positions by a wing-headed screw slotted for a turnscrew, foliate engraved steel with roller, figured half-stock with stepped spur and chequered rounded grip, the latter with flat ovoidal pommel set with a foliate engraved steel plate and encircled by a silver band engraved with a Greek key pattern, steel spur trigger-guard with pineapple finial and foliate engraved bow, vacant silver escutcheon on the side-flat, horn fore-end cap, and original brass-mounted ramrod (some wear and areas of pitting), Birmingham proof marks
20.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance
Possibly the Nizam of Hyderabad

J.G. Lacy & D.W. Witton were also known as Lacy & Co.. They are recorded at various addresses in the city of London between 1815 and 1835

The lock appears to be based on Samson Davis's British Patent No. 4648 of 12 February 1822. See Lewis Winant, Early Percussion Firearms..., 1959, pp.54 and 81-84, pl.70

For a fine d.b. gun on the same principle, by the same maker and formerly belonging to the Duke of Cambridge, Viceroy of Hanover see Christie's London, Fine Modern Sporting Guns, Vintage Firearms and Antique Arms and Armour, 13 July 1977 lot 267. See also a related d.b. gun sold in these Rooms, 23 May 2018, lot 423

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