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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
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A Balkan (Souliot) 20-Bore Flintlock Pistol With Silver Stock
19th Century

Antique Arms and Armour Including The Ray Wilkinson Collection
24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Balkan (Souliot) 20-Bore Flintlock Pistol With Silver Stock
19th Century

With plain barrel chiselled with foliage at the breech and struck with three brass-lined marks at the breech, tang covered with a silver-gilt plate originally extending over the breech and cast and chased with a shell and foliage, border engraved rounded lock decorated with a monster and with a bridle over the steel-spring (action defective), heavy full-stock with tapering slightly curved butt cast and chased overall in relief with flower-heads, scallop shells and scrollwork highlighted with small nielloed panels, bulbous pommel en suite and with pierced foliate terminal, trigger-guard and muzzle-sleeve (minor repair) all en suite, gilt trigger cast in the round as an Epirot in contemporary costume drawing his dagger, false ramrod also en suite, and traces of original gilding (iron parts with minor rust patination)
33 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For a pair of similar pistols see Robert Elgood, The Arms Of Greece..., 2009, p. 323, nos. 293, 294; and another example sold in these Rooms, Eastern Arms & Armour From the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection, 29 April 2015, lot 274

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.