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A Scottish 28-Bore Flintlock All-Metal Belt PistolBy T. Murdoch, Late 18th Century
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A Scottish 28-Bore Flintlock All-Metal Belt Pistol
By T. Murdoch, Late 18th Century
By T. Murdoch, Late 18th Century
13.6 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 29 November 2018, lot 531; and for a very similar pair of pistols by the same maker and formerly in the Dr. H.S. Sloane Collection of Glasgow see Christie's London, Antique Arms And Armour, 10 July 1985, lot 192
Thomas Murdoch is recorded as baptised in Doune in 1735 and married there in 1766. He evidently left Doune when the pistol industry began to decline and came to Edinburgh where he is recorded at various addresses in Leith between 1774 and 1790. For more information Charles E. Whitelaw, Scottish Arms Makers..., 1977, pp. 43 and 154




