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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.
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Lot 189*

A Rare 70-Bore Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol
Early 17th Century, German Or Netherlandish

Antique Arms and Armour
24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 70-Bore Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol
Early 17th Century, German Or Netherlandish

With slender swamped three-stage barrel (scattered surface pitting) with three applied moulded brass bands, the forward section octagonal, the breech section rounded then fluted, stepped at the rear and struck on the upper side with a mark, an 'S' within a shield, plain tang incised with old armoury number '16', large flat lock with brass pan and wheel-retaining bracket, and slotted iron pan-cover release button, fruitwood full stock (minor bruising and repairs) with hooked butt and inlaid with brass lines enclosing panels of interlaced brass wire nearly all bearing mother-of-pearl roundels engraved with ball-flowers and enriched with brass pins, and at intervals with oval and circular mother-of-pearl panels (two replaced) engraved variously with birds and scrollwork, swivelling iron safety-catch opposite the lock, later iron trigger-guard, brass fore-end band, and white staghorn butt-plate, spirally pierced single brass ramrod-pipe, and later wooden ramrod with spirally engraved brass tip
54.5 cm. barrel

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Provenance
Anon. sale, Wallis & Wallis, Connoisseur Collectors' Auction, 3 November 2000, lot 170 (£5,400 plus premium)
Fine Antique Arms and Armour from the Henk L. Visser Collection, sold in these Rooms 28 November 2007, lot 277

Literature
G. De Vries and B.J. Martens, The Visser Collection, vol.1, part 4, cat. no. 853, 2007, pp. 398-399 and dust-jacket

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.