
This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
Lot 133
An Irish Flintlock Travelling Pistol Of Musket BoreBy Clarke, Dublin, Late 18th Century
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £281.60 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Arms and Armour specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot


Client Services (UK)
Shipping (UK)
An Irish Flintlock Travelling Pistol Of Musket Bore
By Clarke, Dublin, Late 18th Century
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
18.8 cm. barrel
Footnotes
The maker is probably Nicholas Clarke recorded in Dublin between 1779 and 1811, the year of his death




