Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL, CIRCA 1720
with later Continental barrel moulded at the muzzle and
enclosed by a band of silver, formed with a long flat inlaid
with shaped silver panels over the breech, brass lock
signed ‘K.McL f’ and engraved with foliage and
wrigglework borders (extensive restoration and repairs),
brass full stock finely engraved with Celtic foliage and
strapwork scrolls over the fore-end enriched with silver
rosettes, engraved with the owner’s initials ‘J.L.C.’ at the
base of the fore-end opposite the lock (the stock cracked
through and repaired at the lock, one small chip above the
lock), engraved ram’s horn butt with tightly scrolling
terminals, naïvely inlaid on each side with a heart and the
owner’s crest and motto in silver, the spine decorated with
scrolling Celtic foliage and two inlaid panels of entwined
silver strapwork, long steel belt hook inlaid with a pierced
engraved heart in silver (losses) and pierced with a design
of foliage at the base, engraved silver pricker, later button
trigger, and moulded steel ramrod
39.5cm; 15I in
Inv. no. F028.
Literature:
Martin Kelvin, The Scottish Pistol, Its History Manufacture
and design, London 1996, p. 159.
The crest and motto is that of Campbell of Cawdor.
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It would appear that this pistol was extensively restored in
the 19th century.
£2500-3500
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A NORTH EUROPEAN LONG WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER
PISTOL, CIRCA 1630, PROBABLY ALSATIAN
with tapering octagonal barrel, stamped with the
barrelsmith’s mark (Neue Støckel 4895) strongly bevelled
lock retained by three side nails, fitted with external wheel
retained by a moulded ring-shaped bracket, sliding pancover,
safety-catch, moulded dog and dog spring, figured
fruitwood full stock with fishtail butt (fore-end replaced),
inlaid opposite the lock and over the butt with brass
scrollwork terminating in engraved mother-of-pearl and bone
rosettes, all enriched with minute brass stars and framed
within linear arrangements of brass wire extending over the
fore-end, the butt cap bound by a plain brass band and inlaid
with a symmetrical pattern en suite, brass ramrod-pipe, and
brass fore-end cap (later brass-tipped wooden ramrod)
74.5cm; 29D in
Inv. no. F080.
£5000-6000