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Lot 326*

A Rare Cased Pair Of Highland 25-Bore Flintlock Gold-Inlaid All-Metal Belt Pistols
By Marshall & Sons Of Edinburgh, Circa 1820

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £12,750 inc. premium

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A Rare Cased Pair Of Highland 25-Bore Flintlock Gold-Inlaid All-Metal Belt Pistols
By Marshall & Sons Of Edinburgh, Circa 1820

With three-stage barrels each retaining original blueing beneath and engraved with a Scottish thistle along the mid-section, foliate engraved flared octagonal muzzles, and ridged and fluted breeches, the latter each with gold-lined touch-hole, border engraved flat bevelled locks each signed on a rectangular gold-inlaid panel and decorated with foliage involving a martial trophy on the tail, engraved safety-catches, cocks (one top jaw and screw replaced) and steels, rainproof pans and rollers, blued steel three-quarter stocks inlaid with engraved gold foliage along each fore-stock and with symmetrical gold-inlaid scrollwork involving thistles, stars and dots along the underside, ram's horn butts inlaid en suite and including engraved martial trophies representing the Union on each side above silver-gilt escutcheons engraved respectively with owner's crest and initials 'DP', the border engraved horns of silver, vacant gold escutcheons (one replaced), gold acorn-shaped trigger, threaded silver-gilt prickers en suite (probably replaced), belt hooks each with cusped mount, original slender steel ramrods each with turned and pierced tip, and retaining some original blueing (one butt with loss of finish and small repair to one martial trophy): in modern lined and fitted wooden case with some accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask with fluted bag-shaped body
18.7 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Sotheby's Olympia, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 26 June 2003, lot 288

The owner's crest and initials are those of Pettegrew

Marshall & Sons are recorded as Edinburgh gunsmiths, around 1820. See Martin Kelvin, The Scottish Pistol..., 1996, p. 168

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