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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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Lot 346

A Rare Cased Pair Of Irish 32-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By McCormick, Dublin, No. 87, Dated A.D. 1795

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

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A Rare Cased Pair Of Irish 32-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By McCormick, Dublin, No. 87, Dated A.D. 1795

With rebrowned swamped octagonal sighted barrels each engraved 'Dublin' and stamped with Irish registration mark 'T-Y 5939' and 'T-Y 5940' respectively, serial numbered and dated beneath (some wear), silver fore-sight, and gold line at the rear of the breech, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved tangs, signed border engraved bevelled flat locks each decorated with a starburst behind the pan and with foliage on the stepped tail, border engraved cocks, safety-catches, rollers each bearing on a ramp in the steel-spring, and semi-rainproof pans, slender figured full stocks, chequered rounded butts, border engraved steel mounts retaining much of their original blueing (minor rust patination) including butt-caps each with retaining screw centred on a flower-head, trigger-guards each with pineapple finial and decorated with a martial trophy and foliage on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheons, set triggers, horn fore-end caps, and swelling original ramrods, one with horn tip, the other with threaded brass powder-measure (some old bruising) and iron worm: in original turned and fitted oak case (compartment lids and hook catches replaced) with some accessories including later brass-mounted three-way powder-flask retaining much of its lacquered finish, the exterior of the lid with brass carrying handle of Chippendale form with pearled back-plates
26.8 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Robert McCormick worked in Belfast until 1794, when he moved to Dublin, where his address was 23 Abbey Street

An old handwritten note pasted to the inside of the lid reads: 'Permit Mr. George Kidd to have in his possession one gun and a case of pistols, for the purpose of protecting his property - G. Nugent Major Genl. Armagh, Jany. 8th. 1799'

For another pair of duelling pistols by the same maker, serial numbered no. 86, and sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 10 November 2005, lot 111

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