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Lot 325

A Rare Scottish 25-Bore Flintlock Highland Regiment All-Steel Belt Pistol
By John Christie Of Doune, Circa 1760

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Scottish 25-Bore Flintlock Highland Regiment All-Steel Belt Pistol
By John Christie Of Doune, Circa 1760

With sighted barrel incised with lines behind the slightly flared muzzle, at the mid-section and at the breech, signed border engraved lock, plain stock with ram's horn butt, threaded pricker, button trigger, belt hook, and iron ramrod, possibly original
20.5 cm. barrel

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Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 24 November 2010, lot 362

For a very similar pistol, by the same maker, see Anthony D. Darling, 'Weapons of the Highland Regiments', Canadian Journal of Arms Collecting, Vol. 8, No. 3, August 1970, pp. 75-82

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