Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A GERMAN ENGRAVED POWDER-FLASK, MID-18TH
CENTURY
of green-stained flattened cowhorn, decorated on one side
with a hunter in contemporary dress taking aim at a
reclining stag, and with a boar leaping at a huntsman on
the other, moulded at the nozzle, and fitted with an early
wooden stopper (the horn with small cracks at the base,
nozzle chipped)
27cm; 10K in
£400-500
469
469
A PAIR OF IRISH PERCUSSION TURN-OVER PISTOLS BY
WILLIAM & JOHN RIGBY, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1840
with turn-off barrels engraved with a band around the
muzzles and numbered ‘1’ to ‘4’ respectively (areas of
pitting), engraved breeches, engraved actions decorated
with characteristic foliage, signed on a scroll on the left and
inscribed ‘Dublin’ on a further scroll on the right, three
bents, blued folding triggers, highly figured chequered
walnut butts, inset with a silver oval on the base (one oval
missing), and silver escutcheons engraved ‘C. D. C. 7th D.
G.’
12.8cm; 5in
(2)
£1000-1400
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