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A Very Rare Cased Pair Of Irish 32-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy Wm. & Jno. Rigby Dublin, Nos. 6281 And 6282 For 1827
24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,012.50 inc. premium
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A Very Rare Cased Pair Of Irish 32-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Wm. & Jno. Rigby Dublin, Nos. 6281 And 6282 For 1827
By Wm. & Jno. Rigby Dublin, Nos. 6281 And 6282 For 1827
With heavy etched twist octagonal sighted barrels signed in gothic script along the top flat, recessed patent breeches each with three gold lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, foliate engraved tangs each with back-sight, border engraved flat locks each signed in gothic script and decorated with foliage and drums, cocks en suite, engraved safety-catches, rainproof pans and rollers, figured half-stocks (minor old bruising) with chequered flattened rounded butts, border engraved steel mounts comprising spurred ovoidal butt-caps each with retaining screw centred on a flower-head, spur trigger-guards each decorated with a martial trophy and foliage on the border engraved bow, trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheons, barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end caps, and brass-tipped ramrods: in their mahogany case, possibly original, fitted and relined in green baize with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask re-covered in red leather, the interior of the lid with reproduction maker's trade label, the exterior (slender old split) with circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon
21.3 cm. barrels
21.3 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Arms, Armour, Aeronautica & Militaria, 28 May 1996, lot 334
The Richard Garrett Collection of Antique Firearms & Related Items, sold in these Rooms 28 November 2018, lot 330
Literature
D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers: Messrs. Rigby 1760-1896, 1992, p. 46. Recorded as 'Best duelling pistols with case complete' sold to Sir J. Piers for £26.5.0








