Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A RARE SILVER-MOUNTED PERCUSSION OVER-AND-
UNDER SINGLE TRIGGER POCKET PISTOL BY JOSEPH
EGG, NO.1 PICCADILY, LONDON, NO. 2657, CIRCA 1825
with blued barrels inlaid with two gold lines at the
breeches, the upper signed in gold and fitted with silver
fore-sight, the lower inscribed with the maker’s address,
percussion bolsters engraved with lightening bolts and
clouds, engraved breech tang decorated with fern foliage
and incorporating the back-sight, flush-fitting flat locks
profusely engraved with dense foliage involving a serpent,
signed on the right and inscribed ‘London’ on the left, later
external mainsprings, figured walnut butt cut with
chequering (small scratches and dents), silver mounts
comprising vacant diamond-shaped escutcheon, squarebacked
trigger-guard decorated with foliage inhabited by a
pair of exotic birds (hallmarks worn, no longer visible) and
spurred pommel fitted with a vacant gold plaque on the
base, blued steel ramrod-pipe on the left, retaining some
original colour throughout (ramrod missing, the steel parts
with very small spots of light pitting)
15cm; 6in
Provenance:
Presented to the current owner’s grandfather by the Duke
of Connaught in 1908.
£4000-5000
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