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Lot 133

An Irish Flintlock Travelling Pistol Of Musket Bore
By Clarke, Dublin, Late 18th Century

24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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An Irish Flintlock Travelling Pistol Of Musket Bore
By Clarke, Dublin, Late 18th Century

With octagonal sighted barrel engraved 'DUBLIN' along the top flat and with a line of beadwork at the rear, border engraved tang decorated with foliage, flat bevelled lock (cock replaced) signed in capitals, figured full stock (old split on the side-plate) with rounded flat-sided butt, brass trigger-guard with pineapple finial and decorated with a flower-head on the border engraved bow, turned ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheon, and brass-tipped ramrod (barrel and lock with old rust patination)
18.8 cm. barrel

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The maker is probably Nicholas Clarke recorded in Dublin between 1779 and 1811, the year of his death

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