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Arms, Armour, Militaria and Ethnographica: Friday 11 December 2009 10:30AM
Viewing: Thursday 10 December 9.00am - 5.00pm and morning of sale
 

A Late 18th Century Flintlock Pocket Pistol by Blair, with 4.5cm turn-off steel barrel, London proof marks, signed box lock with slide safety and walnut slab butt.

Guide Price: £120-180

View Lot No. 445

 
 

A 19th Century Percussion Cap Pocket Pistol by John William Edge, the 7.5cm turn-off octagonal steel barrel with Birmingham proof marks, dolphin hammer, foliate engraved cylindrical action, concealed trigger, chequered walnut bag butt with lion mask pommel.

Guide Price: £250-300

View Lot No. 446

 
 

A 19th Century Percussion Cap Double Barrel Houdah Pistol, with 25.5cm steel barrels, plain lock plates, walnut butt with chequered grip and hinged brass cap box to the butt, with steel ramrod.

Guide Price: £300-400

View Lot No. 447

 
 

A 19th Century Percussion Cap Overcoat Pistol, the 9cm octagonal turn-off steel barrel with London proof marks, the box lock stamped MANTON, LONDON, the walnut bag butt with chequered grip.

Guide Price: £180-250

View Lot No. 448

 
 

A 19th Century Percussion Cap Double Barrel Sporting Gun by Forsyth & Co., London, the 68cm steel barrels engraved "Forsyth & Co., Inventor & Makers, London" on the top rib, with gold lines and foliate engraved tang, foliate engraved hammers, one lock plate signed, the nipple cylinders stamped L and R, chequered walnut half stock with steel double scroll trigger guard with acanthus bud finial and with horn tipped wood ramrod. Poor order.

Guide Price: £200-400

View Lot No. 449

 
 

An Unusual 19th Century Air Gun, with 51cm rifled top barrel and smaller gauge lower barrel, the walnut pistol grip with stock extension, and with valve and socket for the spherical air reservoir - missing.

Guide Price: £150-200

View Lot No. 450

 
 

A Rare Remington Rolling Block "Light Baby" Carbine, the 52cm steel barrel with pinched blade type front sight (rear sight missing), the steel tang stamped "REMINGTONS ILION.N.Y.U.S.A. PAT.MAY 3D.NOV.15TH 1864, APRIL 17TH 1866", the left side of the frame set with a ring bar and saddle ring, the figured wood butt stamped E.N., with curved steel butt plate and with steel band to the fore-end.

Guide Price: £700-1000

View Lot No. 451

 
 

An Early 19th Century Percussion Cap Blunderbuss by Ketland & Co., the 40cm steel barrel octagonal at the breech, the top flat lightly engraved Ketland, London, and with London proof marks, the lock plate engraved Ketland & Co., the underside of the flared muzzle with attachment for a sprung bayonet (missing), the walnut half stock carved with stylised shell motif behind the tang, and with steel furniture. Poor order.

Guide Price: £250-300

View Lot No. 452

 
 

A 19th Century Percussion Cap Live Pigeon Gun by Wilson, Sheffield, with 80cm steel barrel, foliate engraved cock (damaged), the lock plate signed and engraved with a gun dog and bire, angular trigger guard with finger rest, chequered walnut half stock - damaged and repaired.

Guide Price: £80-120

View Lot No. 453

 
 

A 19th Century Indian Matchlock Long Gun, the 142cm steel barrel bound to the full wood full stock with bands of leather and metal, with rounded slightly upcurving butt.

Guide Price: £100-200

View Lot No. 454

 
 
 
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