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A Fine Cased Pair Of Irish 38-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Duelling Or Target Pistols
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A Fine Cased Pair Of Irish 38-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Duelling Or Target Pistols By Wm. & Jn. Rigby, Dublin, Nos. 9748 And 9749 For 1847 With etched twist octagonal sighted barres (one with minor marks on the top flat behind the fore-sight) each signed in gothic script along the top flat and with bright bore, case-hardened breeches engraved with foliage on top and each with three platinum lines and pierced platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tangs and border engraved detented back-action locks, the former each with blued back-sight, the latter signed in gothic script on a scroll, foliate engraved dolphin hammers, figured half-stocks (some old bruising) each with characteristic spur and chequered rounded butt with flat ovoidal pommel, steel mounts comprising border engraved case-hardened pommel-caps each with retaining screw centred on a foliate scroll, fore-end caps en suite, blued spur trigger-guards, trigger-plates and turned rear ramrod-pipes, the first each decorated with foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, the second (some loss of finish) each with engraved pineapple-shaped finial, vacant silver escutcheons, border engraved steel barrel-bolt escutcheons, set triggers, original wooden ramrods serial numbered to the pistols and each with threaded brass cap over the worm, and retaining some original finish: in original lined and fitted brass-mounted oak case serial numbered to the pistols and with some accessories including Dixon & Son brass-mounted three-way powder-flask, the interior of the lid with John Rigby & Co. trade label of circa 1866, the exterior (old split along the top) with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle 21.5 cm. barrels Footnotes: Literature D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers: Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, 1992, p.114. Recorded as 'Pair of saw-handled duelling pistols Cased' and sold to A. Thistlethwaite, 85 Light Infantry for £26.5.0 See footnote to preceding lot This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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A Fine Cased Pair Of Irish 38-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Duelling Or Target Pistols By Wm. & Jn. Rigby, Dublin, Nos. 9748 And 9749 For 1847 With etched twist octagonal sighted barres (one with minor marks on the top flat behind the fore-sight) each signed in gothic script along the top flat and with bright bore, case-hardened breeches engraved with foliage on top and each with three platinum lines and pierced platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tangs and border engraved detented back-action locks, the former each with blued back-sight, the latter signed in gothic script on a scroll, foliate engraved dolphin hammers, figured half-stocks (some old bruising) each with characteristic spur and chequered rounded butt with flat ovoidal pommel, steel mounts comprising border engraved case-hardened pommel-caps each with retaining screw centred on a foliate scroll, fore-end caps en suite, blued spur trigger-guards, trigger-plates and turned rear ramrod-pipes, the first each decorated with foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, the second (some loss of finish) each with engraved pineapple-shaped finial, vacant silver escutcheons, border engraved steel barrel-bolt escutcheons, set triggers, original wooden ramrods serial numbered to the pistols and each with threaded brass cap over the worm, and retaining some original finish: in original lined and fitted brass-mounted oak case serial numbered to the pistols and with some accessories including Dixon & Son brass-mounted three-way powder-flask, the interior of the lid with John Rigby & Co. trade label of circa 1866, the exterior (old split along the top) with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle 21.5 cm. barrels Footnotes: Literature D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers: Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, 1992, p.114. Recorded as 'Pair of saw-handled duelling pistols Cased' and sold to A. Thistlethwaite, 85 Light Infantry for £26.5.0 See footnote to preceding lot This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
Antique Pistols: Two English Private Collections
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