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Lot 140

A Rare Cased 80-Bore Flintlock Over-And-Under Pocket Pistol
By J. Blanch, London, Circa 1830

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

£5,000 - £7,000

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A Rare Cased 80-Bore Flintlock Over-And-Under Pocket Pistol
By J. Blanch, London, Circa 1830

With flat-sided barrels made in a single block and engraved with a line of foliage around the muzzles and at the breech, signed in a silver scroll on the top flat and engraved with foliage, platinum-lined touch-holes, tang engraved with foliage and incorporating the back-sight, foliate engraved flat locks with safety-catches, blued external mainsprings each linked to the foliate engraved ring-neck cocks, engraved steels, chequered figured butt, trigger-guard profusely engraved with foliage, foliate engraved silver butt-cap with threaded steel ramrod with brass-capped worm, blued triggers, vacant silver escutcheon, and retaining much original finish: in lined and fitted mahogany case with powder flask covered in green leather, the exterior of the lid with vacant brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
8.6 cm. barrels

Footnotes

John 1 Blanch was apprenticed to Jackson Mortimer whose daughter, Anne, he married in 1809, the year he established his business. He worked first for John Manton and then in partnership with his father-in-law as Mortimer & Blanch. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1834 and is recorded at 39 Fish St. Hill between 1826 and 1848

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