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Lot 74

A GROUP OF ACCESSORIES RELATING TO ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE FIREARMS
Mostly 19th Century

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £892.50 inc. premium

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A GROUP OF ACCESSORIES RELATING TO ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE FIREARMS
Mostly 19th Century

Comprising a brass powder-tester with graduated wheel acting against an external spring, and with later swelling wooden handle; five T-shaped combination tools for percussion guns, each with threaded brass caps (two in pitted condition); another of hammer form, with turned baluster head, forked peen, and stem of tapering octagonal section; a 12-bore cartridge-extracting tool incorporating a whistle, carriage key and turnscrew; two turnscrews and two cleaning tools, each with swelling wooden handle; two pairs of foliate scroll engraved hammers for pin-fire guns; two for percussion sporting guns (one pitted); a bright steel oil bottle of octagonal section; a Spanish steel barrel band pierced and chiselled with symmetrical foliage; a steel side-plate embossed and chased as a pair of dragons; a steel bullet mould; mainspring clamp and threaded pistol barrel of octagonal section; a tin of Eley's percussion caps; the remains of a leather holster; a Gilbertson & Page Ltd. 'Gamekeeper's note book'; an undated Alexander Henry & Co. letter relating to harpoon guns; and a quantity of lead balls and flints (a lot)

Footnotes

The flints offered with a handwritten note dated July 1948 giving details of 'Brandon gun-flints'

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