391 |
A PAIR OF 24 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY WOGDON, LONDON, CIRCA 1790 with signed rebrowned octagonal swamped barrels fitted with silver fore-sights, engraved with a band of beadwork at the breeches, engraved breech tangs fitted with standing back-sights, signed stepped bolted locks (one cock and one top-jaw replaced), set triggers, figured walnut full stocks, steel mounts including trigger-guards with acorn finials, drop-shaped butt-caps and a pair of ramrod-pipes, and one retaining its horn-tipped wooden ramrod with its steel worm (minor restorations, one ramrod replaced) 37.5cm; 14 3/4in (2) £2000-3000 | Nil |
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3800 |
| 392 | A PAIR OF 25 BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS WITH LEFT-AND RIGHT-HAND LOCKS BY A DU COMMUN WARWICK, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY with two-stage barrels formed with a short chiselled flat and a foliate terminal over the breech, border-engraved tangs, rounded locks engraved in the French taste with scrolling foliage incorporating a putti, an exotic bird and a reclining nude, the right-hand lock signed on the lower edge and inscribed 'Warwick' beneath the steel spring, chiselled steels each decorated with a flower in a vase on the front, figured walnut full stocks moulded over the fore-ends, and carved with an acanthus moulding in low relief behind the barrel tangs, steel mounts comprising solid bevelled side-plates engraved with border ornament and strawberry foliage terminating in serpents heads, spurred trigger-guards, a pair of moulded ramrod-pipes, and vacant escutcheons en suite with the trigger-guards (later ramrods, the steel parts with areas of pitting and patinated throughout) 42.5cm; 16 3/4in (2) It would appear that these pistols were made in the early 18th Century using the locks, mounts and barrels from a double barrelled pistol of circa 1690. Abraham du Commun is first recorded in Warwick on the south west part of the High Street where his house (and presumably shop) was the first to be destroyed by fire on 5th September 1694, for which he was awarded £7. Unlike his contemporary Nicholas Paris little more is known about him. He had a son of the same name who apprenticed to Henry Anthonison and was turned over to John Smart, in the London Gunmaker's Company, circa 1715. £3500-4500 | Nil |
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| 393 | A 16 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION PISTOL BY CHARLES MOORE, 77 ST JAMES ST, LONDON, NO. 1438 CIRCA 1840 with rebrowned barrels signed on the rib and fitted with silver bead fore-sight, scroll-engraved case-hardened breech stamped with platinum-lined maker's stamps, platinum plugs, and inlaid with a platinum line, scroll-engraved case-hardened grooved breech tang, signed flush-fitting bolted locks engraved with scrolling foliage and border ornament, figured walnut half-stock, chequered butt, scroll-engraved trigger-guard with pineapple finial, associated stirrup ramrod, engraved silver escutcheon with the owner's crest and initials 'IHM', and horn fore-end cap 31cm; 12 1/4in Charles Moore is recorded at this address circa 1825-42. The crest is that of Middleton of, variously, Stockfield Park, Yorkshire, Crowfield Hall, Shrubland Hall and Broke Hall Suffolk; and the Grove, Norwich. £1000-1200 | Nil |
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1400 |
| 394 | A 22 BORE PERCUSSION TRAVELLING PISTOL BY W. THOMAS, LINCOLN, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1840 with rebrowned tapering sighted barrel inscribed 'Lincoln' over the breech and fitted with stirrup ramrod beneath, scroll-engraved breech and breech tang, signed border and scroll-engraved flush-fitting lock with blued bolt safety-catch, figured walnut full stock, chequered butt, engraved steel trigger-guard with traces of original blue, silver-plated butt-cap, vacant German silver escutcheon and horn fore-end cap 29.2cm; 11 1/2in This maker is recorded in Lincoln circa 1834-57. £300-400 | Nil |
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750 |
| 395 | A PAIR OF 140 BORE CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION MUFF PISTOLS, MID-19TH CENTURY with turn-off barrels, scroll-engraved box-lock actions, folding triggers, and rounded figured ivory butts with slightly beaked pommels (age cracks) 10.7cm; 4 1/8in (2) £200-300 | Nil |
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350 |
| 396 | A 120 BORE D.B. FRENCH PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL, ST ETIENNE PROOF, AND A 54 BORE BELGIAN D.B. PERCUSSION PISTOL, LIÈGE PROOF, MID-19TH CENTURY the first with separate rifled barrels joined by a small block incorporating the fore-sight at the rebated breeches, box-lock action, figured walnut butt, broad steel trigger-guard and brass-tipped steel ramrod; and the second with octagonal barrels, scroll-engraved box-lock action, figured walnut butt, engraved steel trigger-guard, and vacant shield-shaped German silver escutcheon (surface rust) the first: 20.3cm; 8in (2) £150-200 | Nil |
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350 |
| 397 | A CASED PAIR OF 40 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOLS SIGNED SMITH, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1840 each with engraved case-hardened turn-off rifled barrel decorated with a band of acanthus around the muzzle, signed scroll-engraved case-hardened rounded action, blued folding trigger, sliding thumb-piece safety catch, finely chequered walnut butt, silver grotesque mask butt-cap, and vacant silver escutcheon: in their fitted mahogany case lined in blue velvet (the lining partly replaced), and complete with a contemporary copper powder-flask 16.2cm; 6 3/8in £1800-2200 | Nil |
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