Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

344
A QUANTITY OF POWDER-FLASKS AND FIREARMS
ACCESSORIES
including A BANDOLIER FOR SPORTING USE, 18TH
CENTURY, with brass nozzle fitted with blued steel levers;
A LEATHER-COVERED POWDER-FLASK, 18TH CENTURY;
A BRASS PERCUSSION CAP DISPENSER BY JAMES
DIXON & SONS, SHEFFIELD; A STEEL PUMP FOR AN AIR
CANE, FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, with black
painted body and brass fittings; A POLISHED STEEL
DOUBLE-ENDED CHARGER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, for
shot and powder; ANOTHER, FORMED OF A SINGLE
BRASS COMPARTMENT; TWO LEATHER WALLETS FROM
SPORTING GUNS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, one by Sykes,
the other retaining a turnscrew, pricker and a quantity of
flints; A WAD CUTTER; A MAINSPRING CLAMP; A
POLISHED STEEL OIL BOTTLE; A COMBINATION
TURNSCREW; A COMBINATION NIPPLE WRENCH, AN
ADJUSTABLE GRADUATED BRASS POWDER-MEASURE,
FOUR FURTHER STEEL POWDER MEASURES; AN EARLY
POWDER CHARGE BY ELEY, LONDON; A BAG OF
160
346
347
348
LANCASTER PATENT UMBRELLA CAPS; and TWO TINS
OF CAPS
(qty)
See S. J. Gooding 1979, p. 118.
£500-700
345
A SMALL HORN FLASK, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
and two small German silver-mounted leather scabbards
for hunting daggers
the first: 16cm; 6G in
(3)
£30-40
346
A FITTED MAHOGANY CASE FOR A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK
DUELLING PISTOLS, CIRCA 1810
for pistols of approximately 16in length, lined in green
baize (faded, areas of wear, the compartments relined and
with later lids), and the lid with brass flush-fitted carrying
handle (one lid catch and the trade label missing), with a
bullet mould, horn-tipped rammer
51cm; 20in by 23cm; 9in
£800-1000
347
A FITTED MAHOGANY CASE FOR A REVOLVER OF
TRANTER TYPE, CIRCA 1860
for a revolver of approximately 12Iin length, lined in green
baize, complete with 54 bore bullet mould, Dixon & Sons
copper flask, rammer, and W.Tranter patent no.50 detached
loading lever (the lid warped, case lining with areas of light
wear)
35.7cm; 14in by 19.2cm; 7I in
£500-600
348
A FLINTLOCK ‘SPRING’ TRAP GUN, EARLY 19TH
CENTURY
with steel barrel belled at the muzzle, rounded lock of
regulation type operated by a long pivot lever projecting
towards the muzzle (the signature obscured), iron-bound
wooden stock formed in two pieces encasing most of the
barrel (weather cover missing), and fitted with iron pivot
mount underneath (the steel parts pitted)
52.4cm; 20K in
Trap guns of this type were forbidden by law in 1827.
Another example of this type, with a lock signed ‘Smith’,
was sold Sotheby’s Olympia, 5th December 2002, lot 185
(£1260 including premium). See L. Winant 1956, pp.109-110
and p.113 no.112.
£600-800