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Lot 264

A Pair Of Scottish Flintlock All-Steel Belt Pistols
By Thomas Murdoch Of Doune, mid 18th century

14 – 15 October 2021, 14:00 BST
Edinburgh

Sold for £15,250 inc. premium

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A Pair Of Scottish Flintlock All-Steel Belt Pistols
By Thomas Murdoch Of Doune, mid 18th century

With four-stage barrels engraved with symmetrical foliage, the flared octagonal muzzles and fluted breeches with lines of overlapping foliage, signed border engraved flat bevelled locks, bevelled cocks en suite and engraved with foliage, three-quarter stocks engraved with designs of foliage, the undersides each with three engraved silver lines, foliate engraved ram's horn butts each with silver oval escutcheon on each side engraved respectively with owner's monogram, and crest and motto, a further escutcheon on the back engraved with a martial trophy, engraved silver button triggers and threaded prickers, foliate engraved belt hooks, and slender steel ramrods each with turned baluster tip, London proof marks. (2)
20.5cm barrels

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The arms and motto are those of Christina Elisabeth Sichterman, Countess of Kintore (1738-1809). She was the daughter of Jan Albert Sichterman of Groningen, Netherlands who was the Intendant General of the Dutch Settlement in the East Indies and the Fiscal of Bengal (1734). In 1766 she married Anthony Adrian Falconer (1742-1804), born in Groningen, the eldest surviving son of William Falconer, 6th Lord Falconer of the Scottish Peerage, a colonel in the Dutch army, and Rembertina Maria Idiking of Groningen. His paternal grandmother was Margaret Keith, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Kentmore. He was later (1776) 7th Lord Falconer of Halkerton and from 1778, as Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore

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