Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOL BY BECKWITH,
LONDON, CIRCA 1800
with two-stage lightly swamped brass barrel inscribed
‘London’ over the breech, signed stepped bolted lock fitted
with roller (cock replaced, bolt repaired), figured walnut full
stock (fore-end and butt repaired), engraved brass mounts
comprising trigger-guard with pineapple finial and butt-cap
(later ramrod)
33.6cm; 13D in
£300-400
378
A CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL, CIRCA
1820
in the English taste, with moulded brass barrel belled
towards the muzzle and fitted with spring bayonet beneath,
engraved box-lock action with sliding thumb-piece safetycatch
also locking the steel, flat-sided chequered walnut
butt, and engraved steel sliding trigger-guard retaining the
bayonet
23.8cm; 9G in
£250-350
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A CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOL,
CIRCA 1740
with two-stage rifled barrel moulded at the muzzle, slightly
curved stepped lock, figured walnut full stock moulded
about the tang and the trigger-guard, brass mounts
including pierced scrolling side-plate, spurred pommel with
grotesque mask cap, trigger-guard with acanthus finial, and
vacant escutcheon (later ramrod)
20.5cm; 8in
£300-400
380
A CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL, MID-
19TH CENTURY
with octagonal barrel fitted with spring bayonet beneath,
box-lock action engraved with bold sprays of conventional
foliage, and bag-shaped walnut butt; A CONTINENTAL
OVER-AND-UNDER PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL, MID-
19TH CENTURY; A CONTINENTAL OVER-AND-UNDER
PERCUSSION TRAVELLING PISTOL, MID-19TH CENTURY;
A CONTINENTAL D.B. PERCUSSION TRAVELLING PISTOL,
MID-19TH CENTURY; and A CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION
TRAVELLING PISTOL (each polished bright and extensively
cleaned, the third and fourth with later stocks)
the first: 24.7cm; 9N in
(5)
£120-180