antique arms, armour & militaria - Thomas Del Mar Ltd

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A 40 BORE FRENCH TRAVELLING PISTOL, CIRCA 1750-60
with two-stage barrel moulded at the muzzle, chiselled
with rococo scrolls and foliage on a punched gilt panel
over the breech and the tang, stepped bevelled lock
engraved with a putto reclining on a trophy-of-war spoils
of war, decorated with foliage on the tail, the cock, the
top-jaw and the steel all on a punched gilt ground en
suite with the breech, highly figured walnut full stock
carved with rococo scrolls and flowers about the barrel
tang and ramrod-pipe, the butt decorated as a falcon’s
head and carved with further scrolls, steel mounts
chiselled with foliage against a punched gilt ground,
comprising solid side-plate, trigger-guard and a pair of
ramrod-pipes, contemporary wavy steel belt hook, and
original horn ramrod
18.5cm; 7Din
£1200-1800
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A PAIR OF 54 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS BY
JOHN RICHARDS, CIRCA 1790
with turn-off rifled brass barrels engraved with a band of
acanthus foliage about the muzzles, a further band of
foliage around the breeches, and one numbered ‘1’, brass
box-lock actions signed ‘John Richards’ on a long scroll
surrounded by trophies and foliage on the left and
‘Strand London’ on a further scroll on the right, engraved
tangs, blued folding triggers, engraved blued sliding
thumb-piece safety-catches also locking the steels, and
flat-sided figured walnut butts
18.3cm; 7Din
John 1 Richards probably came from Birmingham and
was made Free of the Gunmakers Company by
redemption in 1781.
£1000-1200